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SC meeting summary - July 2022

2022-07-04

  • The SC met with the Dev in Residence (Łukasz) and discussed:
    • How the Code of Conduct applies for private communication
    • Merging iOS patches from Beeware
    • Not being able to keep up with the Faster CPython team
    • Possibility of postponing the 3.11.0 release to December
    • Possibility of adjusting the 3.12 schedule to allow more testing
  • Discussion on these topics continued after Łukasz left.

2022-07-11

  • The SC briefly discussed PyPI’s new requirements for critical packages
  • The SC discussed potentially hiring a second Developer in Residence and/or a Python Security resident role
  • The SC discussed potential delay of 3.11.0, release blockers, and Release Manager pain points.
  • The SC discussed Adding a new "validation" step to our issue handling workflow and decided on a ‘triaged’ label to mark analyzed issues.

2022-07-18

  • The SC met with Deb Nicholson (PSF Executive Director) and discussed:
    • organization of this year’s core dev sprint (and the sprints in general)
    • hiring another Developer in Residence
  • Smaller topics:
    • Typing Summit presentation
    • Feedback on the planned move to Discourse
    • Noting that Code of Conduct applies for private communication
  • The SC discussed PEPs/PEP updates about managing the standard library, and updating/obsoleting PEPs in general.
  • The SC approved WebAssembly to Tier 3 support, and discussed what it should take to move it to Tier 2.
  • The SC discussed the new policy for the Python GitHub organization, and decided to get the General Counsel (Van Lindberg) to clarify questions about the CLA.
  • The SC discussed core dev mentoring resources & coordinators.

2022-07-25

  • 4 SC members present
  • The Steering Council discussed the latest security reports in PSRT (Python Security Response Team) regarding some APIs and how to approach them.
  • The Steering Council discussed how to approach security issues and how different threat levels require different approaches.
  • The Steering Council discussed the importance (or lack thereof) of some CVEs that are reported against CPython.