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Why I don't like SemVer anymore

10 months ago 5 min read project management

Back in 2017 I wrote a blog post on how I manage version numbers. In that post I mentioned how I tried to follow semantic versioning. Over the subsequent 3 years I have

Thoughts on where tools fit into a workflow

a year ago 5 min read project management

I am going to admit upfront that this is a thought piece, a brain dump, me thinking out loud. Do not assume there is a lesson here, nor some goal I have in

How I manage package version numbers

4 years ago 1 min read project management Python

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

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

4 years ago 8 min read project management Python

While developing the CLA bot for CPython (aka, the Knights Who Say Ni), I decided to make it asynchronous, partially for performance reasons but also because I simply wanted to. 😁 The problem with

How to use your project & Travis to help test Python itself

4 years ago 4 min read project management Python

One of the hardest parts of doing a new release of CPython is getting people to test it before the final release goes out. While CPython has a test suite and we try