Thrilling. I will be there with bells on and a laundry list in hand. Seriously - this is becoming a big-ticket item for the OpenStack Infrastructure team - and I think there are some really big wins to be had without needing to write distutils4 :) So thanks for organizing this!
Monty On 02/06/2013 02:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > As folks may be aware, I am moderating a panel called "Directions in > Packaging" on the Saturday afternoon at PyCon US. > > Before that though, I am also organising what I am calling a > "Packaging & Distribution Mini-Summit" as an open space on the Friday > night (we have one of the larger open space rooms reserved, so we > should have a fair bit of space if a decent crowd turns up). > > An overview of what I'm hoping we can achieve at the session is at > https://us.pycon.org/2013/community/openspaces/packaginganddistributionminisummit/ > (that page should be editable by anyone that has registered for PyCon > US). > > We're certainly not going to resolve all our disagreements and come up > with a grand plan to "fix Python packaging" in a couple of hours on a > Friday night. My hopes are far more modest: that we can get an idea of > the different things people are worried about and trying to resolve, > and start pondering ways we can work towards an cooperative ecosystem > of interoperable tools, rather than the "one tool to rule them all" > model of distutils. > > I fully expect that discussions on the Friday night will continue as > hallway track discussions during the conference, development efforts > at the sprints, and, of course, requests for feedback on the mailing > lists (since there will likely be quite a few interested people that > won't be present at PyCon US). This is not a new conversation - it is > one that has been going on for years, and while some improvements have > been made, we still have a long way to go. > > For those that are able to make it, I look forward to meeting you in > person in March :) > > Regards, > Nick. > _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
