Donald Stufft

Also 3.4.3+ for Verified TLS on 3.x. But that doesn't matter a whole lot, because of the design of distutils means that if you want to say, upload wheel files...

> Again, how does the pip/twine separation benefit users? Are there so many different ways to upload something to pypi that users benefit from a variety of options? FTR when...

I will say one of most common complaints I see amongst people who are new to Python (either new to programming in general, or new to Python but used to...

> It isn't the twine part that makes that especially confusing: it's that setuptools requires you to write setup.py directly, without providing reasonable defaults. I don't think that's particularly true....

FWIW longer term PEP 518 is the solution to ``setup_requires``.

Yes. It's not actually possible to delete sensitive data wholly once you've released it on PyPI. Even if we deleted things from the underlying storage, there's a large mirror network...

I don't have a particular solution other than I think it would be great for someone to write a PEP that made this bit of metadata better :) There was...

Oh, and I have like 0 idea why updating `Release._pypi_ordering`, and integer column on `Release` makes SQLAlchemy think it needs to lazy load `Release.description`, a relationship to another table. I'm...

I tried to argue that we should close down distutils-sig and rename it packaging but people yelled at me for it :( I think packaging.python.org is good, but I don't...

That could probably be reasonable. I'm thinking in terms of PyPI too, there's not really a great way for us to say "Hey in X time/releases Y is going to...