Ned Deily
Ned Deily
Other than for the most trivial sorts of changes (e.g. obvious spelling errors), nearly all changes to the cpython repo should include a NEWS entry; that's our primary mechanism to...
Most distributed versions of Python include or have an option to include install the Python test suite. This is included in the main Python Makefile (Makefile.pre.in) `make install` step. Unfortunately,...
The devguide currently gives information about how to do a backport of a fix from the feature (master) branch to maintenance branches but I see very little in the way...
Currently the GitHub CI workflow for doc seems to first do its own build of cpython before attempting to build the docs. While that may be necessary for correct running...
See, for example, python/cpython#20305 and python/cpython#20306. For some reason, it seems that the bedevere/maintenance-branch-pr check did not run (yet); the status is: `Expected -Waiting for status to be reported`. Because...
There is information related to user verification of Python release artifacts downloaded from python.org on the website [Downloads page](https://www.python.org/downloads/). Originally this info was about PGP keys and was later to...
### Description When attempting to use `pip 24.2` to install packages on macOS 10.12 or older, pip's vendored version of `truststore` fails with: ``` [...] File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/truststore/_macos.py", line 435, in...
PEP 101 talks about manually updating the top-level `README.rst` file to the new version in the final steps (`bump`) of the release process as part of the post-release commit. In...
There are some timing holes in the current cPython release process which, while somewhat minor, could be tightened up. Currently, there are three release team member roles in producing downloable...