[python-committers] Steering Council Update for April 2019

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:26 AM Berker Peksağ <berker.peksag at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 5:55 PM Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > - **Issue tracker:** We've discussed PEP 581, "Using GitHub Issues for
> >   CPython" by Mariatta Wijaya.  We're in favor of this move, and feel
> >   that the transition should be professionally planned and executed.
> >   In collaboration with the PSF we're exploring ideas on how to do
> >   that (using the successful roll-out of the new Warehouse
> >   infrastructure for PyPI as a model).
>
> 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.
>
> 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)
>

Because that repo is private I will say that the last comment on that issue
was exactly a month ago from someone at GitHub saying that they are looking
into this feature request.

-Brett


> 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
>
> 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.
>
> --Berker
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