Re: [python-committers] Pace of change for Python 3.x

2017-01-26 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 01:58:42PM +0100, Nick Coghlan wrote: > Software maintenance is a commercial support activity that is normally > done for profit, so the PSF needs to be careful in how it approaches > it to avoid getting in trouble with the IRS (public interest charities > like the PSF opera

Re: [python-committers] Pace of change for Python 3.x

2017-01-25 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:45:05AM -0500, Eric V. Smith wrote: > Channeling Nick, I'd say that LTS support should come from commercial third > parties, such as OS vendors. I agree with Antoine: it's not something we > want to impose on the core devs. How much fun is 2.7 maintenance? Are there any

Re: [python-committers] Temporary moderator needed for Distutils SIG

2016-11-12 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 05:30:14PM -0500, Donald Stufft wrote: > I can do this. Thanks! Donald Stufft and Tim Golden have been added as moderators for the list. --amk ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.o

[python-committers] Temporary moderator needed for Distutils SIG

2016-11-12 Thread A.M. Kuchling
I'm going on vacation starting this Tuesday November 15th, and won't have much Internet access, and perhaps none at all, until I get back on November 30th. Could someone please take over moderating the Distutils-SIG mailing list? There's enough moderated traffic (list messages, spam, misdirected

[python-committers] Weak SSH keys

2015-06-02 Thread A.M. Kuchling
Someone ran an experiment looking at the SSH keys used on GitHub (public keys are accessible through the API): https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys Excerpt: I remembered back to the May 2008 Debian OpenSSH bug, where the randomness source was compromised to

[python-committers] Alternative to SSH port 22?

2015-05-05 Thread A.M. Kuchling
I'm working on a DC-area python-dev meetup. One location has been reported to intermittently have trouble connecting to the SSH port (port 22) externally, which would clearly make it impossible to commit to hg.python.org. Does hg.python.org support SSH on any alternative ports, like ? Otherwi

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:37:22PM -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: > Just to be clear, this is exactly what I mean. I'm not saying AC is not > worth it; I'm questioning the timing. Agreed; let's try to avoid far-ranging sets of changes so late in the beta cycle. If we want to send 3.4 back to alpha a

Re: [python-committers] English 'precise' is only an adjective, not a verb.

2011-04-26 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:01:02PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I have a T-shirt that says "English doesn't borrow from other > languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks > them down and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." (it's a > paraphrase of an older quote,

Re: [python-committers] Untabifying the C codebase

2010-05-10 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 03:25:05PM +0200, Barry Warsaw wrote: > 'python' is a standard c-mode indentation style, however it's set up to use > tabs. It should be updated, maybe to a 'python3' style? Here's a quick and > dirty hack: Thanks! I've carried out a re-indentation and whitespace cleanup

Re: [python-committers] Untabifying the C codebase

2010-05-09 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 06:56:27PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > There was one file that I didn't touch: Modules/_cursesmodule.c > Indentation is so uncommon there that interested people should reformat > it themselves, if desired. I'm happy to see the curses module re-indented. Does anyone have

Re: [python-committers] Unapproved commits after 2.6.5rc1

2010-03-03 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:03:43AM -0500, Eric Smith wrote: > Jack Diederich wrote: > But that's manually maintained, right? I was hoping to get something > generated from the svn configuration. The SVN configuration comes from a set of SSH keys checked in to a different SVN repository. This se

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-02 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:36:42AM +0100, Jesus Cea wrote: > I can't wait for HG. I have read the main cutprit for the delay is the > line-ending issue with MS Windows developers. Is there anything else > holding us back?. Note that, if you'd just like to use Mercurial for your own convenience whi

[python-committers] Mysterious uidNNN committers

2009-07-03 Thread A.M. Kuchling
I've been analyzing how much of the Python code is covered by the contributor agreements in the PSF's possession. The logs show four mysterious IDs of the form uid; I'd like to figure out who two of those IDs were. (Two of the IDs are gone in 3.1-trunk, so I don't care about them.) uid26747

Re: [python-committers] Why r69846 is not merged to "release26-maint"?

2009-07-02 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:34:38PM -0400, R. David Murray wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 at 02:13, Anthony Baxter wrote: > Using svnmerge to commit to three branches in addition to trunk > is...painful. Because of the (lack of) speed. Should we push the Mercurial transition higher on the priority li

Re: [python-committers] I've got a surprise for you!

2009-01-27 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 08:07:19PM -0600, s...@pobox.com wrote: > I do notice that there is no Apple hardware or Mac OS X running on > anything. Any chance of adding a XServe or something? Didn't Apple already give the PSF an XServe that's now at XS4ALL, but currently unused? --amk _

[python-committers] Media contact: Alex Handy

2008-10-07 Thread A.M. Kuchling
I received an e-mail from Alex Handy of SD Times: >Hi there. I read your article on the maturation of Python, and I'm >looking for contributors to the Python project. I'd love to talk to >you on the phone for an SD Times article about the subject. I'd also >appreciate any other members of the proje

Re: [python-committers] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:20:23AM -0300, Facundo Batista wrote: > I don't want to keep deferring 3.0 months and months, I prefer to have > a redesigned schedule now, and stick to it as much as possible, even > if the 3.0 version is not as robust as we would want. Another, related policy issue: mu

Re: [python-committers] improving our code quality [my summary of the "PQM" thread]

2008-08-15 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:48:49PM -0300, Facundo Batista wrote: > And, if you pick up that bug six month later, or three year later, you > lose twenty minutes reading the whole discussion, and then realize > that neither you have the expertise to get a decision, and skip to the > next bug. ... >