[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-06 Thread Dom Grigonis
Thanks David, Not keen to take it on solo. Ideally, IMO, this could be a joint project of this whole group. Someone more senior from this group creates a repo and oversights the progress, couple of more experienced members make initial decisions to get things going, someone issues a review PR,

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-06 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023, 14:22 James Addison wrote: > I agree, we should encourage or await a single organization to reimplement > a packaging ecosystem with a slightly different set of properties that > continue to provide them with editor biasing, preventing eventual global > consensus and system n

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-06 Thread David Mertz, Ph.D.
Dom: I'd recommend you simply start a GitHub project for "Curated PyPI", find a catchy domain name, and publish that via GH Pages. That's a few hours of work to get a skeleton. But no, I'm not quite volunteering to create and maintain it myself today. After there is a concrete site existing, yo

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-06 Thread Dom Grigonis
It is possible, that issues being discussed at this stage are not as relevant as they seem at stage 0, which this idea is at. (Unless someone here is looking for a very serious commitment.) If some sort of starting point which is “light” in approach was decided on, then the process can be readju

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-06 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
I agree, we should encourage or await a single organization to reimplement a packaging ecosystem with a slightly different set of properties that continue to provide them with editor biasing, preventing eventual global consensus and system neutrality. Is your time available to help build it? On T

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-06 Thread Gregory Disney
why do people insist on reinventing the wheel? Blockchain is not the answer for adding trust that is verifiable. Code signing is the answer, it’s widely accepted and would be useful in cases of trusted computing and other security use cases. I don’t want to load a hash table to load a third party

[Python-ideas] Re: "Curated" package repo?

2023-07-06 Thread James Addison via Python-ideas
On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 19:06 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 at 03:57, James Addison via Python-ideas > wrote: > > I also agree with a later reply about avoiding the murkier side of > blockchains / etc. That said, it seems to me (again, sample size one > anecdata) that creating a more