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

Tuesday 1 December

Participants

• Sumana
• Nicole
• Pradyun
• Georgia

Agenda

• Yay, pip 20.3 release!
  • Yay and thank you Pradyun

    • Spacebar CPU https://xkcd.com/1172/

    • [and thank you to Sumana]
  • 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