Monday, March 26th meeting notes

Present [Nicole unavailable]:
 * Laura
 * Sumana
 * Ernest
 * Dustin
 * Mark

= News =

Beta released https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2018/03/warehouse-all-new-pypi-is-now-in-beta.html

= Blocked on anything? Announcements? =

Laura: 
 * will be reviewing PRs - starting with GitHub-Flavored Markdown

Sumana:
 * unavailable Friday but working with Donald
 * note: this week & next week, lots of people unavailable/working less

Ernest:
 * XMLRPC caching is all set!
 * Simple redirects have been going super well overall, Artifactory only lingering issue but JFrog has responded
 * Docs Destroy shipped \o/, needs minor refactor
 * Docs redirect functionality planned for this week
 * A couple backend migrations planned 
  * SES for email instead of Mailgun (Donald lead, will be supporting) (consolidating services)
  * Elasticache Redis instead of AMQP for Celery Broker (consolidating services)
  * Monitoring, Metrics, Load Testing, etc! We're looking _great_ though!!!
 * Primarily off radar next week!
 * [infra] credits are good for 18 months 

Dustin:
 * notification bars 
 * [redacted anti-spam note]
 * reduced how often we issue purges - removed per-action purges from common models 
 * this week, fairly unavailable for MOSS-funded Warehouse work, but will review Jon Parrot's GFM stuff 

Mark:
 * NLnet Grant (April 1):  - due this week 
 * review part of grant "compare project with existing projects" 
 * FB Grant (March 31st):  due this week - Mark will try to finish draft by Wed, submit Fri
 * PEP 541 Finalized:  https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0541/
 * Needs licenses and binaries for HashiCorp from Ernest (not high priority)

= Followup =
 * When can we announce [infra] credits? - PSF drafting a letter to [other] contact - that they will be getting PSF infra 
 * Packaging WG approving fund reallocation -- Ernest & Dustin, could you project your current end dates based on that? Yes
 * Mark: Facebook & NLNet grants: see above

= Bug triage =
User support ticket system https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3231
 * Sumana asks: prioritize higher?
 * look for a support queue instead of GitHub issues
 * find inexpensive commercial solution and pay for out of Packaging WG funds 
 * build a simple queue into Warehouse?
 * Resolution: revisit in 2 weeks when team is reassembled, see who has time to investigate

= Need from Donald =
 * transparent [sponsor] logo  (sponsor really, Ernest can email our contact)

= TODO =
 * Ernest & Dustin - project end dates based on updated fund allocation 
 * review part of NL Net  grant "compare project with existing projects" - Mark will grab from Open Tech Fund application
 * trim NL Net grant application since we can only ask for $35,000 - SH will do, coordinate with Ernest
 * Mark needs licenses and binaries for HashiCorp from Ernest (not high priority)