> Steering Council did a one hour Q&A recorded session with Visionary
sponsor, Bloomberg.

Is it possible to access this recording for transparency purposes or is
it confidential?

I saw some people in another language community on a twitter thread where
people were having
rumours and speculations of similar discussions, thinking such companies
influence community decisions.

Disclaimer: I personally trust the SC.



On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:39 PM Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablog...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> We’ve just published the October, November and December steering council
> update for 2021, also included below:
>
>
> https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-10-steering-council-update.md
>
> https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md
>
> https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-12-steering-council-update.md
>
> Just as a reminder, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to
> contact us or open an issue in the SC repo:
> https://github.com/python/steering-council
>
>
> *October 11*
>
>    - SC met with the Developer-in-Residence and provided feedback on the
>    Developer-in-Residence activity blog.
>    - SC decided to keep 2020 dates for 2021 election.
>    - SC discussed the draft about the SC's position on the PEP 649 / PEP
>    563 situation (stringified annotations) and provided feedback.
>    - SC discussed whether or not they should extend their weekly meetings
>    and/or do more async communications. They also decided that the SC should
>    continue having meetings and working during the elections.
>
>
> *October 18*
>
>    - Steering Council met with the GitHub Issues PM for an update on the
>    migration. Priority right now is getting a testing repo out to the core dev
>    sprint and triagers by Wednesday.
>    - SC reviewed PEP 663 (Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and format()
>    behaviors) and potential PEP Delegates.
>    - SC reviewed and discussed issues open on
>    https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues
>
>
> *October 19*
>
>    - SC met with the Search Firm the PSF is using for the Executive
>    Director search, to provide input on the search parameters, and suggest
>    potential candidates.
>
>
> *October 25*
>
>    - Steering Council did a one hour Q&A recorded session with Visionary
>    sponsor, Bloomberg.
>    - Steering Council discussed PEP 649 and PEP 563 (stringified
>    annotations). The group may want to delegate this to Łukasz but will
>    discuss this more next week.
>    - The candidate PEP Delegate for PEP 663 (Standardizing Enum str(),
>    repr(), and format() behaviors) declined. The Steering Council will think
>    of who else it can be delegated to, or take it on themselves.
>
> November 1
>
>    - The SC discussed PEP 649 -- Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using
>    Descriptors <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0649/> & PEP 563 --
>    Postponed Evaluation of Annotations
>    <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0563/>. The SC decided it would
>    tell the community that more information is needed. Barry will draft an
>    email explaining the current situation and calling for help from static and
>    dynamic typing users.
>    - The SC reviewed the open issues in the public Steering Council repo:
>    https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues.
>    - The SC discussed SC promotion during the call for nomination period,
>    which started on Nov 1.
>    - The SC discussed PEP 663 - Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and
>    format() behaviors <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0663/> and
>    that Barry would write the rejection draft.
>    - Brett informed the SC of an issue involving the return type of
>    iterators and the SC decided it would continue discussing it at the next
>    meeting (https://bugs.python.org/issue45250).
>
>
> <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-8>November
> 8
>
>    - The SC had their bi-weekly meeting with the Developer-in-Residence.
>    Received an update from Łukasz on what he is working on.
>    - The SC discussed PEP 663 - Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and
>    format() behaviors <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0663/> and
>    after some initial discussion, it was decided that it needs more discussion
>    on python-dev@.
>    - The SC discussed PEP 467 -- Minor API improvements for binary
>    sequences <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0467/>. bchr() was
>    taken out like the SC had requested and then an ascii() method was
>    added in without any mention. Pablo will draft a response.
>    - PEP 554 -- Multiple Interpreters in the Stdlib
>    <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/> was discussed. A proof of
>    concept is needed and the SC is not yet ready to review the PEP without it.
>
>
> <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-15>November
> 15
>
>    - The SC met with Ezio and got an update on what Ezio was working on.
>    SC told Ezio not to be overly concerned with perfection and not to strive
>    for it. The SC gave Ezio a deadline of Dec 7th to get everything migrated
>    over.
>    - The SC discussed a PR to the CPython repo regarding __iter__ and
>    iterators being inconsistently required by CPython (
>    https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29170). The SC's decision was
>    to update the definitions to say it's a CPython implementation detail that
>    it is inconsistent in its checking whether what an iterable returns is a
>    proper iterator or not (i.e. keep the __iter__ requirement but admit
>    it isn't rigorously enforced by CPython as a historical accident). Brett
>    committed updates to the PR.
>    - The SC discussed a pull request in the “python/voters” repository
>    that allows core devs to trigger automerge behavior from labels and decided
>    it is fine to merge.
>    - Carol gave an update on the documentation WG: The WG is going to a
>    series of 1 hour monthly meetings and then do the rollout next year.
>    - Barry updated the text for the PEP 663 rejection and sent it out to
>    python-dev@.
>    - Group reviewed text for "The current state of typing PEPs" (i.e.
>    request for PEP 563 and 649) and Barry sent it to python-dev@
>    
> <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/VIZEBX5EYMSYIJNDBF6DMUMZOCWHARSO/>
>    .
>    - The SC reviewed PEP 646 (Variadic Generics) and Barry sent the
>    approval to the PEP team.
>    - The SC discussed how notes will be taken after Ewa leaves.
>    - The SC discussed PEP 518 (Specifying Minimum Build System
>    Requirements for Python Projects) and how some folks are split on toml.
>
>
> <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-22>November
> 22
>
>    - The SC met with Łukasz and received an update from Łukasz on his
>    recent work. Additionally, the SC informed Łukasz he should work on
>    upgrading the CLA process. Łukasz will reach out to Yury and Ezio.
>    - The SC discussed Victor's request to remove asynchat and friends
>    prematurely. The SC decided that the removal of asynchat needs to wait
>    another 6 months.
>    - The SC discussed Ethan's email to the SC asking about the re module
>    and its RegexFlag.
>    - The SC discussed the exception for Py_SET_TYPE request. Pablo will
>    write a response to Petr request stating that the change needs to be rolled
>    back in case there are any issues and they need to document any breakage in
>    3.11.
>    - The SC discussed the various questions pertaining to the current
>    state of typing PEPs. Thomas will draft a response to Chris and Paul's
>    questions and the group discussed Barry's private conversation with a core
>    dev about this as well.
>    - The SC decided that it should be the 2022 SC that decides what
>    happens to python-dev@.
>
>
> <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-29>November
> 29
>
>    - The SC met with Ezio. The date to do the full migration has been
>    pushed to mid-January. By Dec 7th, Ezio will put all issues into a test
>    repo for python-dev to test and then the migration will happen when Steffen
>    from GitHub returns from vacation in January.
>    - The SC discussed PEP 659 - Specializing Adaptive Interpreter
>    <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0659/> and whether or not it
>    should be a PEP. It was determined that the informational aspect of the
>    writeup is lacking such as how trade-offs are decided. The SC also
>    discussed how different companies working on Python should work especially
>    in terms of transparency. For the time being there will be no
>    communications about this to the PEP authors or the community as the SC
>    wants to discuss this further. This discussion will continue with the new
>    SC as well.
>
> December 6
>
>    - The Steering Council met with Łukasz to discuss his progress and
>    also introduced Ee to the meeting since Ee will be taking PSF lead on
>    supporting Łukasz going forward. Łukasz updated the team on CLA work,
>    testing Irit's PR for Exception Groups, adding a new triager, and giving a
>    keynote at the PyCode Conference.
>    - The Steering Council discussed the issue Jason posted
>    <https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/89> about
>    deprecating importlib.resources legacy API. It was decided that Brett would
>    respond to the comment stating that Jason is following policy and that the
>    SC is satisfied, but that the larger discussion on changing the policy
>    should happen on python-dev. The group also discussed how Python's
>    deprecation policy impacts users and library authors.
>    - The group said their goodbyes on Ewa's last day.
>
>
> <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-12-steering-council-update.md#december-13>December
> 13
>
>    - The Steering Council met with Ezio. There is no full import from BPO
>    yet, but he will create one this week. The final migration is still
>    tentatively scheduled for mid-January. Ezio will loop in Thomas on meetings
>    with GitHub, which Ewa previously attended, or other SC members if Thomas
>    can't make it.
>    - The SC prepared for a Talk Python podcast recording after the
>    meeting.
>
>
> <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-12-steering-council-update.md#december-13-handoff-meeting>December
> 13 (handoff meeting)
>
>    - The old Steering Council and the New Steering Council met for the
>    handoff meeting.
>    - The SC discussed several aspects on how it has operated so far.
>    - The SC received an updated from Thomas on the status on the search
>    for a new PSF director.
>    - The SC briefly reflected and discussed the diversity in the Steering
>    Council and how to improve the situation in the future. This topic will be
>    discussed further in the future.
>    - The SC approved a request for a wording change in PEP 654 -
>    Exception groups <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/>.
>    - The SC had an overview of unresolved issues: definition/rules for
>    the standard library, split in communication channels and the situation
>    regarding type annotations with PEP 563 and 649.
>    - The new SC decided to use discord as a new communication channel.
>    - The SC discussed the status on the GitHub issues migration and what
>    to do next to push the work forward.
>
>
> Regards from sunny Salamanca,
> Pablo Galindo Salgado
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