[python-committers] Steering Council Update for April 2019

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 26, 2019, at 09:12, Berker Peksağ <berker.peksag at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think there was a consensus on switching to GitHub Issues last
> time it was discussed. The most recent discussion about PEP 581 only
> has 12 messages. I think the council is making a premature decision
> here.

Technically speaking, the PEP is still in Draft state.  I have a PR up for splitting the migration into two separate PEPs, one for the rationale and a second one for the migration plan:

https://github.com/python/peps/pull/1013

> I'm strongly against using GitHub Issues. I will change my mind once I
> see a sign that GitHub is actually listening to our feedback. We can't
> even get them to make the use of #NNNN and GH-NNNN in the commit title
> configurable (https://github.com/maintainers/early-access-feedback/issues/77)
> and have the ability to automatically strip intermediate commit
> messages from the commit message body
> (https://github.com/maintainers/early-access-feedback/issues/153) The
> only time I got a response from them was this:
> https://github.com/python/miss-islington/issues/16#issuecomment-396095622

It would be very helpful if you could add these comments to the PR.

> I volunteered to maintain our Roundup instance a while ago and already
> fixed some bugs: https://hg.python.org/tracker/python-dev/ I've also
> submit patches to improve UX and fix issues. I'd list list them here
> but I can't reach out to http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/ at
> the moment. I hope the problem with the hosting is temporary because I
> have several non-trivial patches there.

And as a fan of Roundup and its critical importance to the Python development process, I want to personally thank you for all your —and everyone who has contributed to it over the years— hard work in maintaining it.

Cheers,
-Barry

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