Alyssa Coghlan

Adding another note based on a discussion with @soltysh: something we need to explain to list users and moderators when migrating existing lists is how to log in to the...

(It's likely obvious by now that I didn't get around to setting up any "meta docs" last year, and it's not on my current todo list any more. Just making...

I've taken the initial steps towards migrating distutils-sig to MM3, so here's an example post that attempts to explain the items in the checklist above: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2018-April/032215.html

@encukou @zooba @brettcannon @ambv We'd been talking about automating some of our "maintenance release stability guarantees" for a while, so I figured it made sense to start a checklist of...

@ned-deily pointed out that a good starting point would be to clearly *document* the compatibility expectations somewhere in the Developer Guide.

@ned-deily That reminded me that @benjaminp's attempt at defining an explicit backwards compatibility policy is still open for review: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0387/

@zooba I thought I recalled some previous work on public symbol lists, but my search-fu failed me. If you can figure out where it is, then I'll add the link...

Just noting that this will be one of the pre-requisites for even considering disallowing reductions in code coverage (as per #38)

Echoing support for the proxy/cache concept, I don't think there was ever a philosophical objection to hosting on RTD, just technical and sustainability questions. Both the PSF and RTD are...

Thanks for the thorough review @CAM-Gerlach! (as well as the recommendations on applying the change suggestions cleanly) The missing context is on me - I asked @nhumrich to make the...