Re: upcoming work to facilitate PyPA communications/roadmaps

This is great news! Looking congrats and glad to have you back with us!

Dan Ryan // pipenv maintainer
gh: @techalchemy

> On Dec 24, 2018, at 3:13 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It's been eight months since the release of Warehouse[0] and the sunsetting of legacy PyPI[1]. Following up from our meeting at PyCon in May[2], Changeset Consulting is back on board for another round of project management to facilitate next steps! For the next 3-6 months this work will be spearheaded by myself (Sumana) assisted by Jenny Ryan (https://jennyryan.net ). 
> 
> The goal over these upcoming months is to create, steward and facilitate internal and public-facing communications to aid the folks within PyPA. 
> 
> What this means is that we'll be focused on the following:
> * Facilitating regular meetings of and for maintainers and contributors;
> * Stewarding communications with various PyPA stakeholders, including funders and users;
> * Organizing, labelling, prioritizing, and responding to GitHub issues;
> * Coordinating public communications, such as announcements, sprints, and calls for participation;
> * Maintaining and improving documentation, meeting notes and development roadmaps for PyPA projects.
> 
> Feedback from and participation by the Python packaging developer community is obviously part and parcel of this project, so you may see some new "here's what I think is up with this issue, is that right?" questions on old unresolved discussions. And we'll be asking questions on this & other lists and on GitHub and in IRC to collect ideas, concerns, and other productive input regarding the tools roadmaps.
> 
> You'll be seeing more details in mid-January to properly kick off this next chapter of levelling up PyPI and the PyPA -- just wanted to give y'all a heads-up.
> 
> But of course, if you were already planning on using the next few weeks to do issue triage and roadmap-writing and PyCon planning, please don't wait for us -- that'll make this work all the easier.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sumana Harihareswara
> 
> 
> [0] https://blog.python.org/2018/04/new-pypi-launched-legacy-pypi-shutting.html
> [1] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/YREMU56QKRMTTFBFVFJ2B4EHOEKOJZFJ/
> [2] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/CCOV6PITEWELONZHP4ZHXALBFQA3K3MY/
> 
> -- 
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Changeset Consulting
> https://changeset.nyc