The inaugural python packaging council is an excellent opportunity to resolve a longstanding lack of broad expertise in real world challenges for packaging. Historically speaking there have been at least two heavily underrepresented groups:
- Linux and BSD distros
- packages with system-integrated C extensions
I am well-positioned to represent their interests; as a member of Gentoo Python I am one of the people building a Linux distro, with a heavy focus on python software, and as a core developer of the Meson Build System I help design the build system used by python packages such as numpy, scipy, and pandas.
I'm also a past maintainer or current contributor to two different Linux package managers. Arch Linux's "pacman" and Gentoo's "portage".
Build and packaging systems are my passion. I would love to be able to contribute my experience to help guide the next stage in python packaging.