Hugo van Kemenade

Any news from the OSI board meeting?

The last board meeting minutes posted at https://opensource.org/minutes is from 2024-07-19. Since this issue was opened, a third attempt was started on the five-year old [PEP 639 – Improving License...

> > The last board meeting minutes posted at https://opensource.org/minutes is from 2024-07-19. > > So they met, reached a quorum, approved the previous meeting's minutes, then adjourned … ?...

Although on 14th September, the License Committee's recommendation was posted, with an intention for a board vote on the 20th: https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2024-September/005553.html

Thank you! I'll be travelling for the next few days without a laptop, so can continue with this some time next week unless someone else wants a go!

@Yay295 What do you think about documentation vs. deprecation?

You could see how other Python projects have handled it: https://github.com/sethmlarson/pypi-scorecards

I'm not sure about the scalability of adding Boolean flags here and there. How about adding it to a logger?

I've merged in `main` to include https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7827 to fix a lot of the warnings I'm seeing on macOS 14.4 Sonoma with CommandLineTools installed. And this is failing to build for...

My thinking on this: I don't see anything particularly urgent/important in the changelog to merge this right now, so maybe we hold off for another release or so?