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indygreg / python-build-standalone

Produce redistributable builds of Python
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Meta: make builds official #217

Open ofek opened 4 months ago

ofek commented 4 months ago

For reference: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-711-pybi-a-standard-format-for-distributing-python-binaries/25547/104

Is there desire on your part for transferring ownership to the PyPA in an effort to make these builds official and hosted on https://www.python.org?

indygreg commented 4 months ago

Is there desire on your part for transferring ownership

Yes.

to the PyPA

Leaning towards no.

in an effort to make these builds official and hosted on https://www.python.org/?

Maybe.

Now the longer version.

I'm enticed by the idea of making these builds more official and hosted on www.python.org. However, I believe that will require time, effort, and will that I don't have at the moment nor will I have in the foreseeable future.

I'd be interested in transferring ownership.

However, a common theme from packaging threads on discuss.python.org I've followed is that the PyPA seems to chronically be short-staffed and spread too thin. While it may be possible to get more parties interested in contributing to these builds if this project were to become part of the PyPA, there are notable projects under the PyPA umbrella that are withering. It's anyone's guess what happens to this project if it becomes a PyPA project. In my mind that translates to avoidable risk.

My preferred outcome would be to find a new owner who is able to invest the time into figuring out the right path forward and then working to make that happen. There's a strong chance that path forward entails working with upstream to standardize a distribution format (like PyBI) and maybe even making these builds official on www.python.org! Or they could leave things mostly as-is: this project is pretty successful without any standards support or official relationship with PyPA or www.python.org! But that would be something for the new owner(s) to decide.