- The Steering Council met with Łukasz, the Developer-in-Residence, and discussed:
- The Deputy Developer-in-Residence interviews.
- Ongoing work around
yield from
in generators, as well as PEPs 667/558. - Ongoing work around the buildbot master, individual buildbots and how to handle non-tier-1 configurations on tier-1 platforms like AddressSanitizer.
- How to improve buildbot health and make people more aware of breakages they are causing on buildbots.
- The SC discussed the ongoing search for mentorship training and support.
- An abbreviated Steering Council (Thomas, Pablo, and Greg) met informally in-person at the Core Developer Sprint in Brno.
- An abbreviated Steering Council (Pablo and Brett) met with Łukasz, the Developer-in-Residence, and discussed updates on the different topics that he worked on at the sprint:
- Coverage reports.
- Updates of Miss-islington.
- Help Yury with a MemHive (sharing between multiple interpreters).
- General summary of what other people worked on.
- An abbreviated Steering Council (Thomas, Emily, and Brett) recapped the recent Core Developer Sprint.
- The SC received a new proposal for mentorship support, which will be reviewed next week.
- The SC discussed the final specifics for accepting PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython).
- The SC discussed the logistics of fitting tall people into small cars.
- The Steering Council met with Łukasz, the Developer-in-Residence, and discussed:
- Setting up buildbots for upcoming free-threading work.
- General buildbot statuses and updates to fix buildbot slowness.
- The SC discussed their options and logistics for hiring an external person to take meeting minutes during weekly meetings and opted to defer this decision to the next SC.
- The SC confirmed that the details for the upcoming SC election are approved.
- The SC discussed requests for the breaking change in the Tkinter method
wm_attributes()
and decided that PEP-387 (Backwards Compatibility Policy) should apply and the change should follow a proper deprecation.