Brett Cannon - Tall, Snarky Canadian (Page 17)

How I manage package version numbers

Jul 8, 2017 1 min read project management

I recently helped someone release their first project on PyPI and I was asked why I did version numbers the way I did, so I figured I would share where my current thinking

Why Competitive Marketplaces Aren’t Always the Best Solution

Jul 8, 2017 12 min read

[This was meant to be a contribution to a book collecting chapters on various topics that would help "a programmer who has never been politically active, but is starting to wonder why

Becoming an OSS project maintainer is about trust

Jun 4, 2017 2 min read open source

To gain commit rights on CPython, a pre-existing core developer nominates your for commit rights to python-committers. That nominator lays out roughly why you should be given commit rights, and then promises to

Clarifying PEP 518 (a.k.a. pyproject.toml)

May 27, 2017 4 min read packaging

I was reading the latest issue of Pycoder's Weekly [http://pycoders.com/] and they mentioned Thomas Kluyver's pull request [https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/4144] to implement PEP

Designing an async API, from sans-I/O on up

Apr 27, 2017 8 min read project management

While developing the CLA bot for CPython [https://github.com/python/the-knights-who-say-ni] (aka, the Knights Who Say Ni), I decided to make it asynchronous, partially for performance reasons but also because I simply