2023-11,12-steering-council-update.md

November & December 2023 Steering Council update

• Steering Council discussion topics:
  • PEPs
    • Confirmed our agreement to accept PEP 702 deprecations in the type system.
    • Discussed our first impressions of PEP 712 dataclasses converters. Decided to seek more consensus. We announced this PEP 712 feeling on discuss.
    • Discussed, read up on, and accepted PEP 729 Typing Governance.
    • Discussed, read up on, and accepted PEP 731 C API Working Group.
    • Briefly discussed PEP 726 module level __setattr__ and __delattr__. We expect the 2024 SC to decide. (editors note: It was rejected)
    • Discussed PEP-703 making the global interpreter lock optional naming and a desire to avoid putting negatives on the desired-to-be-legacy GIL term, thus "free-threading" rather than "nogil".
    • Discussed and accepted PEP 730 iOS platform support.
    • Discussed and accepted PEP 732 documentation editorial board.
  • Accepting Meta’s offer to host the core dev sprints in Washington in September 2024.
  • The proposal for mentoring resources and how to gauge interest. Coordinated with the PSF for budget and a contract to make it happen.
  • C API issues regarding removal of some APIs and potential conflicting goals.
  • The status of our Supporting Developer in Residence contract.
  • The status of woefully delayed monthly updates.
  • That we have varying workflows and communication levels of different Working Groups (WGs) and if there are potential issues arising from that.
  • That we needed to draft an official policy around "python" and "cpython" organizations on PyPI.
  • Establishing a communication channel with all of our Developer in Residences.
  • The possibility of encouraging more devguide entries about how the Tier 2 interpreter in ceval.c works.
  • Ongoing research into state of the world around an OS “Fetch URL” API and if those could simplify bundled pip requirements.
  • The in progress SC election process.
• Sync-ups with Łukasz (Senior Developer in Residence), topics covered included:
  • Recent work on coverage mode and a multi-line REPL.
  • If there are potential for alternatives to Buildbot.
  • The status of PEP 649 deferred evaluation of annotations, implementation(s).
  • The successful start of our Supporting Developer in Residence, Serhiy Storchaka.
  • The ongoing ARM performance benchmarking efforts with donated hardware. Including the renaming branch master to main while maintaining historical data requiring work.
  • The status of two factor authentication (2FA) vs GitHub bots and the assurance that there won't be any issues with the current bots when 2FA is rolled out.
  • The decision to drop running BigMem buildbot on 3.12 and only run on main. This allows Łukasz to use existing hardware.
  • Łukasz's recent public appearances: Nokia C++ conference talk about async generators & a podcast episode about frame optimization.
• End of term hand over meeting from the 2023 SC to the 2024 SC:
  • Goodbye Brett, Welcome Barry!
  • Discussed our current processes.