New packaging security funding & NYU

Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Mar 2021 23:28:43 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel
Organization Changeset Consulting
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Good news!

New York University -- specifically Professor Justin Cappos -- and I 
have successfully asked the US National Science Foundation for a grant 
to improve Python packaging security. The NSF is awarding NYU $800,000 
over two years -- from mid-2021 to mid-2023 -- to further improve the 
pip dependency resolver and to integrate The Update Framework further 
into the packaging toolchain.

https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2054692&HistoricalAwards=false

For what we're planning to do, what this means in the short term, an 
explanation of why NYU and the NSF are involved, and thank-yous, please 
see https://discuss.python.org/t/new-packaging-security-funding-nyu/7792 .

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Changeset Consulting
https://changeset.nyc
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