On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: [...] > - A lot of things seem to be happening to make PyPI better. Is this > being summarized somewhere? Based on some questions I received during > my keynote Q&A (http://bit.ly/bdflqa) I think not enough people are > aware of what we are already doing in this area.
Even people very involved in packaging are not fully aware of what's going on. I am not for instance. I think that we lack to communicate and synchronize on our efforts on the PyPI development. The last example I have in mind is that I have announced here that I was working on a patch for the checkbox problem, then Martin announced today on catalog-sig it was fixed by Georg and updated in production :) I think we need to improve this: it can be a very frustrating experience to contribute to PyPI. Possible improvements: - Have a PyPI component at bugs.python.org so all work on bugs/new features would be known and followed by at the same level than other packaging components we maintain, and that depend on PyPI (distutils, distutils2) -- e.g. drop the sourceforge tracker - Make it easier to contribute by moving the PyPI code base to hg.python.org. Unlike Python, this is a very simple move. > Frankly, I'm not sure > I do, either: I think I've heard of a GSOC student and of plans to > take over pypi.appspot.com (with the original developer's permission) > to become a full and up-to-date mirror. That would be great if the student could promote his work at Catalog-SIG. > Mirroring apparently also > requires some client changes. Mirrors can be used as long as you manually point a mirror when using them. We we are working on making the switch automatic. Regards, Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
