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Communications from the Steering Council
See https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FAASOMUNQZDJBCOTZK6I2KH55SDOONF6/
CC @VanL @abadger A few of us had a long, deep conversation in the PyCon hotel lobby last night about barriers to contribution, particularly relative to responsiveness and mentoring. One...
At the [2021 Language Summit](https://us.pycon.org/2021/summits/language/) - like [in 2020](https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/05/property-based-testing-for-python.html) - I proposed that CPython should use Hypothesis in CI and increase its [use of fuzzing](https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/main/Modules/_xxtestfuzz) ([via OSS-Fuzz](https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/getting-started/new-project-guide/python-lang/)). Core devs were...
I apologize for the lateness of the submission--but here it is, PEP 649. I'll keep an eye on this issue in case I can answer any questions for the committee...
Require 2FA
In case I don't get re-elected, I wanted to suggest we require 2FA for committers. The overhead is minimal if you regularly use the same machine and the safety guarantees...
I kicked off a discussion at https://discuss.python.org/t/how-do-we-want-to-manage-additions-removals-to-the-stdlib/10681 which has stopped. Having a policy around what it takes to add a module to the stdlib would probably good, as well as...
## Motivation At present, triagers are unable to use a number of GitHub features that would be useful to them in their role in supporting the core devs, including: *...
Please consider PEP 683 -- "Immortal Objects, Using a Fixed Refcount". https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/ * [x] The PEP has been discussed in threads listed in its `Post-History` header * [x] The PEP...
Please consider PEP 692 -- Using TypedDict for more precise **kwargs typing https://peps.python.org/pep-0692/ * [x] The PEP has been discussed in threads listed in its `Post-History` header * [x] The...
Please consider PEP 669 -- Low Impact Monitoring for CPython https://peps.python.org/pep-0669/ Discussed here: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-669-low-impact-monitoring-for-cpython/13018 This PEP was also announced on Python dev, but there was no response there. The PEP...
