Scisprint 2020 September: pip/pypa/packaging

tags: scisprint

Introduction

Help make the entire packaging/distribution toolchain, as usable and robust as possible!

The Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) is a working group that maintains a core set of software projects used in Python packaging. Some notable projects maintained by PyPA include:

• Warehouse (web interface to pypi.org)
• pip
• setuptools
• virtualenv
• pipenv

More projects can be found under the GitHub organization.

Event information

• Date: 26th September, Saturday, 2020
• Time: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
• Venue: 交大圖書館 B1-殷之浩紀念空間 / 國立交通大學光復校區 / 新竹市東區大學路1001號
  https://goo.gl/maps/kaHx5ELkFC2pNmqKA
• Number of participants: 5 – 10 (excluding staff)
• Staff:
• Online chat room: https://discord.gg/GrZPvn6 (discord)
• Wi-fi:
  • SSID: NCTU-Seminar
  • Account: SE702380
  • Password: lafgho

Agenda

• 1:30pm – 2:00pm: Introduction and preparation
• 2:00pm – 4:00pm: Sprint
• 4:00pm – 4:30pm: Presenting and closing
• after 4:30pm: Free time for networking, dinner, after party

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Organizing team matters

Pending topics for discussions:

• Answer these surveys to improve pip's usability
• Help test pip's new dependency resolver
• pip
  • Clarify setup_requires replacement
  • Better document wheel compatibility tag usages
• pipenv
  • Reduce red usage in terminal
  • From dev to production tutorial
• PubGrub discussions