Re: [python-committers] Regarding reviewing test cases written for tabnanny module

2017-04-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 15 April 2017 at 03:15, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > On 14.04.17 17:02, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> That was exactly my reaction when Serhiy pointed it out - I started to >> argue the point, but then invalidated all my own arguments before >> actually posting anything :) > &

Re: [python-committers] cherry_picker.py updated

2017-04-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
kflow/issues/44) > > Added --abort/--continue options to address > https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/45 > > Lastly, I added --status option, which will just perform `git status` for > the cpython directory. Thank you for the enhancements! Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Cog

Re: [python-committers] Github reviews are cannibalizing BPO

2017-05-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
ly than the nosy list on BPO, since it's based on the actual files touched by a PR). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.pytho

Re: [python-committers] Github reviews are cannibalizing BPO

2017-05-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
ationale for retaining the latter relates to maintaining URL stability, avoiding breaking our own and third party integrations, preserving current email-based individual workflows, and maintaining a PSF controlled archive of significant design decisions, rather than any particular flaws in alter

Re: [python-committers] Proposal for procedures regarding CoC actions

2017-05-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
ntially reported Code of Conduct concerns. Handling of the latter will remain with the PSF Board or their appointed representatives, independently of how we handle moderation of the development channels. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___

Re: [python-committers] Github reviews are cannibalizing BPO

2017-05-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
fers-payment-to-port-to-python.html I know at least one former upstream Roundup developer recently moved into freelance software development & consulting, so I'll chat to him to see if he has any suggestions for possible ways forward here. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gm

Re: [python-committers] Proposing Carol Willing to become a core developer

2017-05-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
finite +1 from me (I was actually thinking of emailing Carol about the idea before I saw this thread) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://m

Re: [python-committers] Guide to pushing to submitters' repo?

2017-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
" alias mentioned there is detailed a few entries earlier in the cheat sheet -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: [python-committers] Added a "sprint" label to GitHub

2017-05-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
th the sprint name. Cheers, Nick. [1] https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/pycon-pune-2017-cpython-sprint -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.p

Re: [python-committers] Revert changes which break too many buildbots

2017-06-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
the change 2. Post a "BuildBot: test custom build" comment on the offending PR 3. Original PR author, committer, and anyone else interested continues the issue resolution process based on the specific links posted back by the helper bot Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail

Re: [python-committers] Revert changes which break too many buildbots

2017-06-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
ps://bugs.python.org/issue30672 [3] https://bugs.python.org/issue30565#msg296006 [4] https://bugs.python.org/issue30647 -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https:

Re: [python-committers] Revert changes which break too many buildbots

2017-06-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 15 June 2017 at 23:38, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-06-15 5:31 GMT+02:00 Nick Coghlan : >> For example, something that would be genuinely helpful would be a bot >> monitoring PR comments that could automate the "custom-build" dance >> for core developers (i.e.

Re: [python-committers] Bedevere now automatically removes "needs backport to *" labels

2017-06-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
backport > PR that triggered the label removal. Very cool, thank you! Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [python-committers] Revert changes which break too many buildbots

2017-06-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
likely to be intermittent for a while, so the buildbot for may be unreliable until ". That way, other folks that care about the platform may be more alert to resolving platform specific issues during that time (and may even be able to take over the lead platf

Re: [python-committers] Revert changes which break too many buildbots

2017-06-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 15 June 2017 at 19:35, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 15 June 2017 at 00:40, Victor Stinner wrote: >> A recent example is Nick Coghlan's implementation of the PEP 538: >> basically, it broke all buildbots... except of Linux and Windows :-) >> And it will take a few mor

Re: [python-committers] New workflow change: Welcome to blurb

2017-06-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
y really want to do so. The Developer Guide has the necessary details: https://docs.python.org/devguide/committing.html#what-s-new-and-news-entries Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committe

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] New workflow change: Welcome to blurb

2017-06-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
y're close enough in spirit that folks familiar with one won't have any problems adapting to the other. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@pyt

Re: [python-committers] AppVeyor off?

2017-07-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
ack before (or in parallel with) scheduling the CI run itself. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-co

Re: [python-committers] My (positive) feedback on the new CPython workflow

2017-07-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
to thanking the folks working on the migration and the associated automation, I'd also like to explicitly thank Mariatta, Terry, Zachary, and everyone else that has contributed to the git cheatsheet and other workflow documentation updates in the developer's guide. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick C

Re: [python-committers] Dismiss review if a PR is modified

2017-07-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
that (it doesn't allow self-review at all, not even to mark your own PRs as still requiring further changes). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers

Re: [python-committers] Travis-CI compiles twice

2017-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
if the result changed), or deleting the new one (if it is the same as the original). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.

Re: [python-committers] New workflow - some questions

2017-07-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
eboot our client machine. As Inada-san notes, the password prompt when accidentally doing a direct push to a HTTPS clone then serves as a reminder that you probably meant to push to a different remote that's set up for read/write access over SSH. There's no functional difference on the se

Re: [python-committers] mention-bot is dead, long live the (misnamed) CODEOWNERS file!

2017-08-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
> users mapping with last rules trumps all semantic. We have > to be careful to not override parts of a previous rules. I believe teams > reduce the burden. +1 for setting up teams, and +1 for an importlib-team :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected]

Re: [python-committers] Travis CI: macOS is now blocking -- remove macOS from Travis CI?

2017-09-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
static set of machines that work through the merged commits. Cheers, NIck. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [python-committers] Should I merge a PR that I approved if it was written by a different core developer?

2017-09-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
or I'm working on a separate change that would end up conflicting with their PR if I left theirs open. That way if they think of an alternative approach that they'd prefer to use, they can still just amend their existing PR and ask for an additional review, rather than having t

Re: [python-committers] What is a CPython core developer?

2017-09-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
cess. Currently, that tends to only happen informally, by virtue of an existing core dev reviewing quite a few of a contributor's patches, and then asking if becoming a core developer themselves is a goal they've considered. There are some additional responsibilities liste

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Reminder: 12 weeks to 3.7 feature code cutoff

2017-11-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
lp", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> await = 1 >>> async = 1 >>> print(async, await) 1 1 So if we're going to go ahead with making them real keywords in 3.7 (as specified in PEP 4

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Reminder: 12 weeks to 3.7 feature code cutoff

2017-11-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 6 November 2017 at 02:02, Yury Selivanov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> The current lack of DeprecationWarnings in 3.6 is a fairly major >> oversight/bug, though: > > There's no oversight. We had PendingDeprecationWarning for >

[python-committers] Mostly offline from December 10th through to January 1st

2017-12-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
behaviour that it addresses has been around for a decade and a half, so I don't think anyone is really going to care all that much whether it gets fixed in 2018 or in 2019. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ pyth

Re: [python-committers] Adding Ivan Levkivskyi as a core committer

2017-12-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
im completely. +1 from me - I found him very receptive to feedback and easy to work with when discuss his proposed changes to the runtime typing machinery. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers ma

Re: [python-committers] Statistics: growth of core dev number vs growth of the code size/complexity

2017-12-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
t;> 2007: around 783k lines >> 2010: around 683k lines > > What happened between 2007 and 2010 that the source shrank by nearly > 13%? My guess would be that it's a consequence of Python 3 becoming the default branch. Cheers, Nick. -

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
, "For most users, if it isn't documented, it may as well not exist" :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.pytho

Re: [python-committers] Official python-dev docker images

2017-12-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
step in triage for problems encountered with redistributor builds: if a problem only shows up in the distro version, then distro specific patches would be the first place to look. Cheers, Nick. P.S. This thread would probably be better located on python-dev

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
jectively data-driven - when volunteers are mentoring and managing other volunteers, it's even easier for unconscious biases to come into play than it is in a more explicitly professional setting. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _

Re: [python-committers] Mentoring Julien Palard (core), Cheryl Sabella (bug) and Sanyam Khurana (bug)

2017-12-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
ey're not available to search engines). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Slipping Python 3.5.5rc1 and 3.4.8rc1 because of a Travis CI issue--can someone make Travis CI happy?

2018-01-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 22 January 2018 at 20:57, Victor Stinner wrote: > I created an issue with more information: > https://bugs.python.org/issue32620 We shouldn't be requiring a pre-existing Python to build CPython anyway, so it would be nice if we could just delete that step entirely. Cheers, Nick

Re: [python-committers] AppVeyor is now required to pass on PRs

2018-01-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
I was still running, and then never got back to actually merge them). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: [python-committers] ssl module will require OpenSSL 1.0.2

2018-01-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
will also have a fair incentive to solve the problem (although in that case, their resolution might be "switch back to using OpenSSL given the improvement over the past couple of years"). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected]

Re: [python-committers] cherry picking, miss islington, and generated files

2018-02-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
may be able to at least have CI fail if "make regen-all" actually changes any file contents for checked in files. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list python-com

Re: [python-committers] cherry picking, miss islington, and generated files

2018-02-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
that we don't backport to 3.7. Whereas the cherry picking just outright failed on 3.6 because the current state of the frozen importlib on that branch is different. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia

Re: [python-committers] Auto-merge the backport PR with one core dev approval and all passing CI

2018-02-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
do the backport PR reviews as soon as Miss Islington creates them means I'll still have the original review fresh in my mind. (I know I can theoretically do that now, but I currently tend not to look at the details of the backport PRs until the CI run is finished) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan

Re: [python-committers] Auto-merge the backport PR with one core dev approval and all passing CI

2018-02-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
t; Huzzah, thank you! Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https

Re: [python-committers] Wanting to merge my first PR under github - a bit of advice

2018-03-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
l that's > needed!) > You didn't miss it - https://devguide.python.org/committing/ is still pretty much written for the old approach of merging on the command line. So a devguide issue would definltely be appropriate, and if you're so inclined, even a PR with the docs that you wish had

[python-committers] Proposing Petr Viktorin as a specialist core developer

2018-04-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
EL, and CentOS (he's the current Python maintenance team lead at Red Hat), and he also has a lot of practical Python 2->3 porting experience (as a result of coordinating much of the migration effort for Fedora and RHEL, including leading the creation of https://portingguide.readthedocs.io/

[python-committers] Welcoming Petr Viktorin as our newest core developer :)

2018-04-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
, and this mailing list. Welcome, Petr! :) Cheers, Nick. P.S. When adjusting the nosy list on the issue tracker, you'll find there's also a new "extension modules" topic, which can be selected to subscribe both Petr and I to the issue :) -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail

Re: [python-committers] Poll: Do you like the PEP 572 Assignment Expressions?

2018-05-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
ufficient further concerns to push the whole concept back into python-ideas territory. (I do think the discussions have clarified the nature of the cases where the current lack of any form of inline binding support can be genuinely irritating, though) -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] |

Re: [python-committers] Comments on moving issues to GitHub

2018-05-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
use regularly - meeting our original GitHub migration commitment to continue offering a way of engaging with the core development process without requiring accounts with any entity other than the PSF It's far from being a foregone conclusion that migrating to a new issue tracker will be the preferr

Re: [python-committers] Marking issues as "Release Blocker" priority (was Re: FINAL WEEK FOR 3.7.0 CHANGES!)

2018-05-25 Thread Nick Coghlan
e a release blocker and asking the RM to take a look it at The RM then makes their decision by either commenting to say they're accepting the issue as a blocker, bumping it down to deferred blocker (if they don't think it's a blocker *yet*),

Re: [python-committers] number of active core devs [was: Comments on moving issues to GitHub]

2018-06-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
making them more thorough?). Cheers, Nick. [1] https://www.openhub.net/p/python -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

Re: [python-committers] Comments on moving issues to GitHub

2018-06-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
et. Cheers, Nick. [1] the PSF's new Director of Infrastructure [2], who some folks may already know from his extensive work on PyPI and other parts of the PSF infrastructure, as well as chairing Python US in 2018/19 [2] https://twitter.com/EWDurbin/status/10015

Re: [python-committers] Comments on moving issues to GitHub

2018-06-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 June 2018 at 17:00, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I'll also email Maciej & EW Durbin ([1]) to see if they've had a chance to > discuss the rehosting plans for bugs.python.org yet. > The status update here is that Maciej has been bringing Ernest up to speed on the preparator

Re: [python-committers] Core Dev Sprints

2018-06-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
oad old Microsoft swag ;) > I was going to suggest you ask the Azure dev advocates to come up with something involving their mascot Bit, and then I noticed the last entry on https://github.com/ashleymcnamara/Developer-Advocate-Bit#find-me-on-twitter :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan |

Re: [python-committers] Changing commiter status (was: Missing In Action)

2018-06-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
gave instructions on how to request reactivation (likely just "Check the developer guide to ensure you're up to speed with any changes since you were last active, then past to python-committers requesting that your credentials be reactivated"). Cheers

Re: [python-committers] Introduction - Pablo Galindo Salgado

2018-06-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
efinitely good to be careful, we also have lots of systems in place to help us correct course when we inevitably do make mistakes :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing li

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
llows you to rediscover the fun parts of contributing without the burden of always needing to be the ultimately responsible decision maker :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing

[python-committers] PEP stewardship delegation: the minimal change approach

2018-07-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
EP is due to a generally supported change's design complexity, rather than due to it being a particularly controversial decision on whether or not to do anything at all. Cheers, Nick. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#pep-review-resolution [2] https://www.pypa.io/en/latest/spe

Re: [python-committers] PEP stewardship delegation: the minimal change approach

2018-07-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 14 July 2018 at 19:36, Paul Moore wrote: > On 14 July 2018 at 08:05, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> So stealing Brett's excellent suggestion of "Design Steward" as a >> BDFL-independent term for the current BDFL-Delegate role, a potential >> PEP 1 amendment

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
should be thinking about how to reduce the demand for language level churn rather than worrying too much about how to enable more of it does mean that I'm entirely comfortable with the idea of postponing any further syntax changes beyond PEP 572 to Python 3.9 or later. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

Re: [python-committers] And Now for Something Completely Different

2018-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
ld be different, but the overall tone would be similar. And I think that's inevitable in an environment driven primarily by volunteer and sponsored development: the time to pursue particular activities has to come from somewhere, and that's either going to be the intrinsic motivations of indiv

Re: [python-committers] And Now for Something Completely Different

2018-07-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
like keeping weeds away and helping to provide water and appropriate amounts of sunlight, rather than trying to tell the individual plants how to grow leaves and flowers :) [1] http://community.redhat.com/blog/2017/05/let-the-river-flow/ [2] https://community.redhat.com/blog/2017/05/seeds-

Re: [python-committers] Recent buildbot.python.org changes

2018-09-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 at 07:02, Zachary Ware wrote: > > Hi all, > > Most of my effort this week has gone into improving the state of > buildbot.python.org, which has largely gone into improving Buildbot > itself. [snip] Very nice! Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan |

Re: [python-committers] New core developers: Lisa Roach and Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel

2018-09-20 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 at 05:28, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > At the developer sprints this week, we collectively decided to grant core > committer status to Emily and Lisa. Congratulations, and welcome! Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane,

Re: [python-committers] [PEP 8013] The External Council Governance Model

2018-09-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
re to help BDFL-Delegates out when it came time to end discussion of a proposal and make their decision (whether for or against) stick. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing lis

Re: [python-committers] Python 4.0 or Python 3.10?

2018-09-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
gs (either already including an "X.Y" separator, or stating that "X_Y" should be used when "XY" would be ambiguous), we can expect actually making such a release to find latent defects in assorted different pieces of software. However, unlike the

Re: [python-committers] Python 4.0 or Python 3.10?

2018-09-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
l collation orders, but if we find one where it isn't, then we'd just specify a collation order to use for Python version comparisons) Cheers, Nick. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0425/#python-tag -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-09-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat., 29 Sep. 2018, 11:19 am Barry Warsaw, wrote: > On Sep 28, 2018, at 17:45, Łukasz Langa wrote: > > > Do you use NNTP? Like with IRC, you won't find the next generation of > core developers on it. And no, there is no support for it in Discourse. > > > > We could probably figure something o

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-09-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat., 29 Sep. 2018, 7:40 pm Łukasz Langa, wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2018, at 09:53, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Especially on the eve of critical governance discussions that will heavily > impact the future of python-dev. > > > Ironically it's the very gravity of those u

Re: [python-committers] Vote on governance will happen between Nov 16 - Nov 30

2018-10-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
ach other or the status quo for it to be likely that a significant proportion of the folks voting will find any of them completely unacceptable) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-comm

Re: [python-committers] IMPORTANT: Missing Email Addresses for Governance Election Voter Roll

2018-11-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
e just in bugs.python.org (which is necessarily linked on GitHub usernames, as otherwise the CLA check wouldn't pass). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list python-c

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
LTS :-) We >> would need a group of people reviewing individual 3.6 pull requests to >> decide to pick them or not. I would volunteer to review these PRs and >> merge them. >> >> The idea isn't new, Nick Coghlan proposed a "ELPython" last year: >>

Re: [python-committers] Election: you can change your vote

2019-01-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
t page, or the preceding page with the final submit button). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: [python-committers] Fwd: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant

2019-01-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
in a position to handle the uncertainty associated with being accepted as a speaker, but then having to wait to see if their financial aid was approved before they could accept the speaking slot. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia __

Re: [python-committers] [Steering-council] Re: Can we choose between mailing list and discuss.python.org?

2019-02-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue., 12 Feb. 2019, 7:18 am Brett Cannon > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:26 AM Victor Stinner > wrote: > >> Le lun. 11 févr. 2019 à 18:58, Carol Willing a >> écrit : >> > PS Copying the steering council in case someone has a different view. >> >> So you chose a mailing list and not Discourse?

[python-committers] Re: Currently working on the release of Python 3.8.0rc1

2019-09-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
we'll be > seeing RC1 out tonight. I've filed https://bugs.python.org/issue38326 as a release blocker, as I don't think we should be cutting RCs when changes have been made to a PEP-approved API without any pre-merge design discussion. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick

[python-committers] Re: [RELEASE] Python 3.8.0 is now available

2019-10-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
Huzzah! Thank you to you and the rest of the release team for coordinating this, and to everyone that contributed changes and fixes :) Cheers, Nick. On Tue., 15 Oct. 2019, 6:24 am Łukasz Langa, wrote: > On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.8 release > team, I’m pleas

[python-committers] Re: Nominations for the 2019 Steering Council Election are now open.

2019-11-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
esulted in my not being able to be as active and constructive a participant in the SC as I would have wished. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@pytho

[python-committers] Re: Possible bug in voting system ? (was: Re: Reminder to vote for the 2020 Steering Council)

2019-12-10 Thread Nick Coghlan
g to being marked as inactive that this was happening (as it had to be inferred from the absence of your name, rather than being called out as a list of voters that had been flagged as potentially inactive since the last voter roll was generated). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh

[python-committers] Re: Policy around compile-time flags in bugfix releases

2020-03-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
Enabling that workaround for embedders using threads without coroutines while figuring out the real underlying contextvars issue seems like a reasonable change to make in the maintenance branches. Cheers, Nick. ___ python-committers mailing list -- pytho

[python-committers] Re: Thank you Larry Hastings!

2020-10-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
Thank you, Larry! Cheers, Nick. ___ python-committers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archived at

[python-committers] Re: PEP 641: Using an underscore in the version portion of Python 3.10 compatibility tags

2020-10-24 Thread Nick Coghlan
As the PEP notes, the PyPA devs already assumed this is what would happen for ambiguous version numbers, so it looks good to me. Cheers, Nick. On Thu., 22 Oct. 2020, 5:58 am Brett Cannon, wrote: > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0641/ (once the cron job runs) > > > https://discuss.python.or

[python-committers] Re: 2021 Python Steering Council Election Results

2020-12-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
Congratulations, all! Regards, Nick. ___ python-committers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archiv

[python-committers] Re: metaclass names and backwards compatibility

2021-01-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
I think you had good reason to call it EnumMeta though: to better distinguish "the enum meta type" (i.e. EnumMeta) from "enum types" (i.e. instances of EnumMeta). Cheers, Nick. On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, 9:17 am Ethan Furman, wrote: > The question: > >Can we change the name of classes if we keep

[python-committers] Re: Acceptance of Pattern Matching PEPs 634, 635, 636, Rejection of PEPs 640 and 642

2021-02-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, 6:21 am Python Steering Council, < [email protected]> wrote: > After much deliberation, the Python Steering Council is happy to announce > that we have chosen to accept PEP 634, and its companion PEPs 635 and 636, > collectively known as the Pattern Matching PEPs. We

[python-committers] Re: Acceptance of Pattern Matching PEPs 634, 635, 636, Rejection of PEPs 640 and 642

2021-02-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, 8:18 am Terry Reedy, wrote: > > The one thing I think needs to be discussed and not been much, at least > not publicly that I have seen, is whether we really want to go down the > road of contextual keywords. There are some negatives as well as > positives. Just because the

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, 15 May 2021, 6:35 am Paul Moore, wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 21:18, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > > > In other words, this isn't a technology problem, it's a people > > > problem. > > > > Both. I didn't suggest this is technology problem. We, have to > > choose one as per majority conve

[python-committers] Re: PSF hires first Developer-in-Residence (was: Re: Re: Call for resumes: Developer-in-Residence to support CPython)

2021-07-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
n applying the lessons they've already learned to the CPython experience) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia ___ python-committers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an

Re: [python-committers] Cutting Python 2.6

2008-10-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
it was mentioned in the release PEP. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org ___ python-committers

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
lockers are fixed. Cheers, Nick. ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Br

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
Fred Drake wrote: > On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> A big +1 from me for declaring it still in beta until all the 3.0 >> release blockers are fixed. > > +1 from me as well. From what I've read about the pathname issues, I'm > pretty worried a

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
Fred Drake wrote: > On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> If you don't make a habit of borking your own filesystems with dodgy >> filenames, it runs fine. > > I really hope the individuals making this argument are being facetious. > I don't think th

Re: [python-committers] [Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Proposed Python 3.0 schedule

2008-10-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
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Re: [python-committers] trying again...

2008-11-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
ng moved around in there. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --- ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.or

Re: [python-committers] Luke Kenneth

2009-01-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
platform with free tools is somehow inherently better than using the native non-free tools appropriate to the platform... Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia --- __

Re: [python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

2009-02-26 Thread Nick Coghlan
s section of the PEP yet, though, to know if they are at > the moment. That sounds like a "not worse than SVN" to me (which means allowing it to be set on a per-file basis, but also being able to set it up so that checked in text files were marked that way by default).

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
fact that we use a lot > of svn:externals in our repository. We have a few of those (svn:externals) as well... Brett, another question for your DVCS champions! Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected]

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-02-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
o take nearly as long as actually merging it does (the only part that seems to save time is the fact that you don't need to build and/or run the test suite afterwards). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.

Re: [python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

2009-03-01 Thread Nick Coghlan
d to svn 1.5 fairly recently?) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia --- ___ python-committers mailing list [email protected] http://mail

Re: [python-committers] help with svnmerge

2009-03-10 Thread Nick Coghlan
current branch? (A: Use "svnmerge merge -r "). This is what most developers will use when porting a single change between branches. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gm

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

2009-07-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
m not really sure who 3.0.2 would be useful for. I agree with what Mark has said above (it also means I can just svn switch my 3.0 checkout to 3.1 rather than adding a 5th local working copy). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gm

Re: [python-committers] Data corruption issue (C IO library)

2009-08-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
ach that has worked well in the past. Only including bug fixes means the alpha/beta stages aren't needed, but going through an RC makes sure the installers and the like are all in a happy state as well. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Br

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