2023-04-steering-council-update.md

2023-04-03

• The Steering Council met with the Developer-in-Residence Łukasz and discussed:
  • Status of the current release, which is being held due to OpenSSL issues.
  • Work on PEP 667 (Consistent views of namespaces).
  • Updates to and the future of pdb.
  • Cultural norms for candy and egg consumption for Easter holidays.
• The SC discussed and accepted PEP 684 (A Per-Interpreter GIL).
• The SC discussed and accepted PEP 695 (Type Parameter Syntax).
• The SC discussed PEP 659 (Specializing Adaptive Interpreter) and decided to ask for it to be withdrawn since it did not need to be a PEP.
• The SC briefly discussed PEP 707 (A simplified signature for __exit__ and __aexit__) and 709 (Inlined comprehensions).

2023-04-10

• Discussed upcoming PyCon US and things to do before/at.
• PEPs discussed:
  • 649 (Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors)
  • 696 (Type defaults for TypeVarLikes)
  • 707 (A simplified signature for __exit__ and __aexit__)
  • 709 (Inlined comprehensions).
• Briefly discussed property-based testing.
• Discussed what was missing from Tier 1 platforms and why (aarch64 macOS). Decided that would resolve itself, it’s entirely about CI resources and CI doesn’t have that platform yet.

2023-04-17

• No meeting due to PyCon US.

2023-04-24

• No meeting due to PyCon US.