[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

> 2013/2/28 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Michael Foord <
> fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 28 Feb 2013, at 07:36, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Am 27.02.2013 17:51, schrieb Michael Foord:
> >> >> Hello all,
> >> >>
> >> >> PyCon, and the Python Language Summit, is nearly upon us. We have a
> >> >> good number of people confirmed to attend. If you are intending to
> come to
> >> >> the language summit but haven't let me know please do so.
> >> >>
> >> >> The agenda of topics for discussion so far includes the following:
> >> >>
> >> >> * A report on pypy status - Maciej and Armin
> >> >> * Jython and IronPython status reports - Dino / Frank
> >> >> * Packaging (Doug Hellmann and Monty Taylor at least)
> >> >> * Cleaning up interpreter initialisation (both in hopes of finding
> >> >> areas
> >> >>  to rationalise and hence speed things up, as well as making things
> >> >>  more embedding friendly). Nick Coghlan
> >> >> * Adding new async capabilities to the standard library (Guido)
> >> >> * cffi and the standard library - Maciej
> >> >> * flufl.enum and the standard library - Barry Warsaw
> >> >> * The argument clinic - Larry Hastings
> >> >>
> >> >> If you have other items you'd like to discuss please let me know and
> I
> >> >> can add them to the agenda.
> >> >
> >> > May I in absentia propose at least a short discussion of the XML fixes
> >> > and accompanying security releases?  FWIW, for 3.2 and 3.3 I have no
> >> > objections to secure-by-default.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Sure. It would be good if someone who *will* be there can champion the
> >> discussion.
> >
> >
> > While Christian is in the best position to discuss this, I did review his
> > various monkeypatch fixes + expat patches so I can attempt to answer any
> > questions people may have.
>
> How close are they to being applied?
>

I have no idea. Ask Christian. =) I can just answer what the attacks are
and what had to change to protect against them.
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