PackagingWG/2020-12-01-pip-team-meeting

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Tuesday 1 December

Participants

  • Sumana

  • Nicole

  • Pradyun

  • Georgia

Agenda

  • Yay, pip 20.3 release!

    • Yay and thank you Pradyun

    • some serious issues have come in but not showstopper horrible ones

    • when new issues come in that could have been caught in beta: “tell us what could have happened differently so you could have tested and caught this during the beta” +++

      • this will be useful partly to know where they are following, what info sources to use next time

      • UX folks may come up with tweaked language

  • Status & blockers

    • Nicole: working on pip docs, been compiling recommendations based on user interviews & doc survey. working on a revised site map for pip docs.

      • no blockers

      • ?: how to recruit packaging maintainers to training sessions

    • Pradyun: no blockers; has day job commitments. triaging issues as they come in. noticing 3 issues in particular. working on a point release. putting things in 20.3.1 milestone. (PyCharm stuff first.)

    • Sumana: partway through https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8936#issuecomment-721440282 checklist

      • todo: Paperwork, CZI presentation

    • Georgia: wrangling training stuff and other last [Phase III] stuff to have a tighter plan

      • blocker: Thurs and Fri, doing some home logistics

    • Bernard: went with Pradyun through the data on the users with 2-10 years of experience, their mental models. Today: hope to get back onto report stuff

      • no particular blockers

  • Invoices - for November - please submit them

  • UX training

    • per notes from Wednesday last week: UX team wants to get Doodle out to mailing list, ideally this week, to start finding times in December and, likely, offer some in January.

      • give email to Pradyun or Sumana so we can forward to pypa-committers list

  • Probably defer to Wednesday: 20.3.1 planning & triaging issues