Packaging/2020-09-29-pip-teamwidemeeting

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Tuesday Sept 29

Participants:

  • Ernest

  • Georgia

  • Nicole

  • Sumana

Status & blockers

  • Pradyun: better than last week.

    • has had a few calls with Bernard re pip output. Productive. just not enough hours in the day

    • TP & Paul and Pradyun having discussions about performance, reducing how much we hit the network. Pradyun will probably make a rough draft of what he & Bernard are discussing.

    • TODO: actually adding flag for rollout. Including filing a flag for it. – DONE https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8937

  • Nicole:

    • been continuing to conduct user interviews. blocker: no-shows :( not unusual. Also: had an interview where we talked about pip wheel{.backtick} and would like to better understand (talk with Pradyun).

    • now promoting the survey on pip install. numbers are good - response rate and promoting/outreach seems to be working! “buy a feature” - waded into Reddit, may not do that again.

      • Sumana: disclaimer that she doesn’t know about efficacy of Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Hacker News

      • Nicole will continue wading into Reddit.

      • Pradyun suggests: a big Python Discord (pythondiscord.com)

      • Georgia suggests: newsletter & blog post generated a lot of attention – let’s also look back through tweets, see whether a particular person RTing helped a lot. Let’s collect meta-info on what works well.

        • Nicole: to collect in UX notes about effective UX research.

    • TODO: Georgia to give Sumana access to the resolver survey (needs to check on permissions) – eventually DONE via Bernard sharing in another medium

    • TODO: Pradyun to look at the resolver survey a few times a week to check for actual bugs that need followup – in progress

  • Georgia:

    • juggling a lot. Working on giving Ernest tweets in a useful way. May just give Ernest a weekly tweet to send. Ernest says that is okay.

    • Also, Georgia to send contract amendment to extend to Dec.

    • training for maintainers:

      • resources/playbook that say: when you are designing a new feature, here’s

        • how to design those well

        • how to get feedback

        • how to publicize things

  • Sumana:

    • Wrapping up the edutainment video

    • Want to have discussion about 20.3 release + the resolver in it.

      • Specifically, the performance.

    • Blockers: none, other than the video – DONE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4GQCBBsuNU

  • Ernest

    • need Pradyun’s invoice

Tomorrow: to discuss: performance and go/no-go decision on new resolver as default in 20.3