[Catalog-sig] Packaging & Distribution Mini-Summit at PyCon US

[Monty Taylor]

On 02/07/2013 09:19 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As folks may be aware, I am moderating a panel called "Directions in
>> Packaging" on the Saturday afternoon at PyCon US.
>>
>> Before that though, I am also organising what I am calling a
>> "Packaging & Distribution Mini-Summit" as an open space on the Friday
>> night (we have one of the larger open space rooms reserved, so we
>> should have a fair bit of space if a decent crowd turns up).
> 
> I wasn't going to be at PyCon, but I changed my plans specifically to
> participate in this. Thanks for setting this up.
> 
>> An overview of what I'm hoping we can achieve at the session is at
>> https://us.pycon.org/2013/community/openspaces/packaginganddistributionminisummit/
>> (that page should be editable by anyone that has registered for PyCon
>> US).
> 
> Cool.  A major difficulty in these sorts of discussions is that people
> have different problems they want to solve and argue about solutions
> without clearly stating their problems.
> 
> If you don't mind, I'll try to find some time in the next few days to
> add a section
> to that page to list goals/problems.

Please. It'll also be good for me to be forced to write my stuff up in
that form.

> It might also be a good idea to link to or assemble a list of PEPs
> that people are encouraged to review ahead of time as homework.

Homework PEPs would be great. Also - if anybody has a canonical list of
which of the various efforts are active or stalled or abandoned or in
maint-only mode, that would be super helpful.