[code-quality] PyCon 2016

[Matt Chung]

It was really nice meeting you both over Pycon.

I like the idea of the google hangouts and would be totally up for it.

Cheers,
Matt Chung
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016, at 06:04 AM, Ian Cordasco wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> As some of you may have realized, PyCon 2016 took place this week (and
> sprints are still going on!). A bunch of us from this mailing list
> (and also those who are no on the list) met up a couple times
> throughout the week to discuss the Python Code Quality Authority,
> pycodestyle, Flake8, and other similar projects.
> 
> Ian Lee, the maintainer of pycodestyle, did a lot of great work
> organizing a lightning talk, open space, breakfast meetup, and sprint
> on pycodestyle.
> 
> Ian and I had a few chances to speak about the future of pycodestyle
> and Flake8. Those of you following along with the mailing list and
> some of my probably confusing messages might realize that I'm working
> on Flake8 3.0 (https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8/commits/proposed/3.0)
> to remove most of our inner dependencies on pycodestyle (while still
> using it for its expertise in check writing).
> 
> In looking over the code a little, we've decided to try to turn as
> much of that work into libraries hosted in the PyCQA as possible so
> pycodestyle can begin to rely on them as well.
> 
> Further, some of the responsibilities that Flake8 has taken away from
> pycodestyle mean that it could, ostensibly, simplify it's internal
> handling of checks if it wants to (e.g., by removing its handling of
> AST checks).
> 
> In conclusion, I think that these meetings were extremely valuable. I
> recognize that most of us (including me) can't afford to go to too
> many of these a year, but I wonder if we should start doing virtual
> meet-ups (perhaps with Google Hangouts on Air) to reap some of the
> same benefits. I know PyLadies Remote has an account to do this with
> and I'm sure we could create a similar account for the PyCQA/this
> mailing list.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ian (not Ian Lee... the other Ian ;-) )
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