[Distutils] Changing the way we use the PEP process (redux)

[Donald Stufft]

Will we start moving the actual specifications into packaging.python.org, or will they stay in the PEP repository? I’m not sure I can tell from your two PRs currently.

> On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 22 January 2016 at 16:58, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've posted about this idea to the list before, but this time I've
>> finally started working on it and have a concrete plan to discuss :)
>> 
>> The basic idea:
>> 
>> * I want to progressively move the active interoperability
>> specifications out of PEPs and into a subsection of
>> packaging.python.org
>> * packaging PEPs would then become a tool for changing those
>> specifications, rather than the specifications themselves
>> * the description of this process would be captured along with the
>> rest of the PyPA operational docs at pypa.io
>> * there's a draft PR to start down this path at
>> https://github.com/pypa/pypa.io/pull/12
>> 
>> That PR provides an example of the potential benefits of this approach
>> - it's able to state which parts of PEP 345 have been superseded by
>> other PEPs, and also note the "Provides-Extra" field which exists as a
>> de facto standard, despite not being formally adopted through the PEP
>> process.
>> 
>> However, having written the draft PR entirely against pypa.io, I've
>> now gone back to thinking packaging.python.org would be a better fit
>> for the actual hosting of the agreed specifications - the "python.org"
>> domain is a vastly better known one than "pypa.io", and being on a
>> subdomain of python.org more clearly establishes these
>> interoperability specifications as the Python Packaging counterparts
>> to the Python Language Reference and Python Library Reference.
>> 
>> So my next iteration will be split into two PRs: one for pypa.io
>> defining the specification management process, and one for
>> packaging.python.org adding a specifications section
> 
> I implemented the split into two PRs:
> 
> Process PR: https://github.com/pypa/pypa.io/pull/14
> Specifications PR: https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/pull/213
> 
> Absent any strong outcry, I'll merge these tomorrow, and we can
> continue to tweak the spec maintenance process from there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> 
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