- Three Steering Council members were available to meet today, Emily and Pablo were traveling.
- The SC met with Łukasz, the Developer-in-Residence, and discussed:
- The new Deputy Developer-in-Residence job description draft.
- EuroPython coming up and Łukasz helping coordinate a core sprint there.
- Discussed all our PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) thoughts.
- Discussed OpenSSL 3.x support backporting needs for older releases.
- Discussed 3.12 and 3.13 release schedule planning with Thomas (release manager hat).
- Discussed ongoing 3.12beta1 early findings as projects try it out.
- Briefly discussed support for core developer mentorship with Deb.
- The Steering Council discussed PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) extensively, with a focus on establishing a process and criteria for evaluating and deciding on the PEP.
- The Steering Council discussed PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) and decided to find out if there’s consensus among Core Devs for the idea and the specific PEP, through a poll on discuss.python.org.
- The SC decided to schedule office hours a half hour before the weekly meeting, as an experiment.
- The SC approved Petr’s proposed changes to PEP 387 (Backwards Compatibility Policy).
- The Steering Council met with Seth Larson, the new Security Developer-in-Residence. One of Seth’s tasks is to improve the process behind the Python Security Response Team (PSRT), and to investigate the PSRT or PSF becoming a MITRE Sub-CNA, so it has authority over the reporting and ranking of CVEs. Seth will be working mostly with the PSRT team, only planning to have email discussions or ad-hoc meetings with the SC for now.
- The SC met with Łukasz, the Developer-in-Residence, and discussed:
- Łukasz handling the macOS installer build as well as the Windows build for 3.12 beta 4.
- His keynote at PyCon Colombia.
- A new EdgeDB release that should alleviate CLA bot inefficiencies.
- EuroPython, his planned talk, the Core Dev panel, and the sprints there.
- The Deputy Developer-in-Residence job opening, which will be posted this week.
- The SC discussed json.AttrDict, which was added without review or discussion, with previous proposals having been rejected, and agreed with the rollback of it for now, at least until it can be discussed on discuss.python.org and a consensus is reached.
- The SC briefly discussed other open issues involving Python 3.12, leaving them to the Release Team to handle.
- The SC officially invited Russel Keith-Magee to the Core Dev Sprint in Brno in October.