Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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Python

05 Aug 2019, 9:01 a.m.

Kickoff for Communications Work on the Python 2 Sunsetting

Python's 2.x line will reach End of Life on January 1, 2020, meaning that the maintainers of Python 2 will stop supporting it, even for security patches. Many institutions and codebases have not yet ported …

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22 Jul 2019, 11:35 a.m.

Beautiful Soup is on Tidelift

I've been doing a tiny bit of consulting for Tidelift for a little over a year now, mainly talking about them to open source maintainers in the Python world and vice versa. (See my October …

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16 Apr 2019, 14:36 p.m.

PyCon NA, !!Con, and WisCon

I'm back in New York City, and preparing to travel a bit; May is my big conference month this year. I'll start the month at PyCon North America in Cleveland, Ohio, practically the whole conference, …

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03 Oct 2018, 17:16 p.m.

Tidelift Is Paying Maintainers And, Potentially, Fixing the Economics of an Industry

As the founder of Changeset Consulting, I keep my eye on consultancies and services in and near my niche, open source leadership, maintainership, and sustainability.* And I've known Luis Villa for years and got to …

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29 Jul 2018, 15:02 p.m.

"Python Grab Bag: A Set of Short Plays" Accepted for PyGotham 2018

Fresh from the waitlist onto the schedule: Jason Owen and I will be performing "Python Grab Bag: A Set of Short Plays" at PyGotham in early October. If you want to come see us perform, …

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11 Apr 2018, 22:17 p.m.

My LWN Story Summarizing PyPI's Overhaul

This coming Monday, April 16th, we plan to flip the switch on the new PyPI and redirect https://pypi.python.org web browser requests and pip install requests so the codebase serving them is Warehouse (which is in …

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11 Mar 2018, 10:42 a.m.

Recent Debugging And Confidence

I am proud of myself for some recent debugging I've done on and with codebases and tools that I hadn't worked on before. A few weeks ago, I was sitting next to a friend who …

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26 Jan 2018, 17:28 p.m.

Preserving Threading In Google Group or Mailman Mailing List Replies with Thunderbird

Have you ever wanted to reply to a mailing list post that wasn't in your inbox? I had that problem yesterday; here's how I fixed it. Context: I'm the project manager for Warehouse, the software …

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02 Jan 2015, 16:12 p.m.

Hacking on Mailman using Launchpad and Bazaar

I am starting to hack on Mailman, per my plan for early 2015 -- and along the way, I'm also learning how to use Launchpad and Bazaar. Mailman To quote maintainer Barry Warsaw's architectural overview, …

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27 Dec 2011, 11:18 a.m.

Confidence Interval

I enjoyed having the apartment to myself for a week while Leonard visited his blood family (why is it easier to clean when I have the house to myself? Why?!), but of course I also …

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