Anthonios Partheniou

Once https://github.com/googleapis/repo-automation-bots/issues/5322 is fixed, we should enable [Github Merge Queue](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/configuring-pull-request-merges/managing-a-merge-queue) to improve velocity by automatically syncing/merging approved PRs. See related issue https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/11655

Documentation is outdated for `google-cloud-speech`

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This is a copy of https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/11856 which is requesting updated snippets for `google-cloud-speech`.

Package [google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-data-exchange) should be removed because we have [google-cloud-bigquery-analyticshub](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-cloud-bigquery-analyticshub) which is for the same API. See the docs [here](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/analytics-hub#client-libraries-install-python)

bug(python): `_AddEqualsMethod` calls `_InternalUnpackAny` which uses deprecated python `MessageFactory`

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**What version of protobuf and what language are you using?** Version: main/v3.6.0/v3.5.0 etc. (NOTE: please try updating to the latest version of protoc/runtime possible beforehand to attempt to resolve your...

[Packages](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages) in `google-cloud-python` support Python 3.13. We should add a presubmit check for `Kokoro CI - Python 3.13` to ensure that samples, and dependencies are compatible with Python 3.13 Googlers...

See build log [here](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/actions/runs/10951846366/job/30409611496) where the mixin tests fail for Ads templates in PR https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/pull/2175 See stack trace below ``` tests/system/test_mixins.py:75: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...

Add `kind` property to transport in ads templates which was added in https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/pull/2123

Once Python 3.8 is dropped, we should use `@functools.cache`, which was added in Python3.9, instead of `@functools.lru_cache(max_size=None)` From https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.cache, > `@functools.cache` returns the same as `lru_cache(maxsize=None)`, creating a thin wrapper...

See feedback in https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/pull/2131/files#r1751065571 from review of PR https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/pull/2131 which calls out that the logic for explicit routing headers which exists in `_client_macros.j2` could be moved to `google-api-core`, similar to...

See feedback in https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/pull/2126#discussion_r1750834836 from review of PR https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/pull/2126 which calls out that `empty_call_test` should test that an exception is raised if `request=None` and a field in the request message...