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Python Software Foundation
@python.org

Hear from PSF's @pypi.org Support Specialist Maria Ashna on what her day-to-day looks like, how she cleared multiple months-long backlogs, and the future of PyPI Orgs in this Behind the Commit episode from @clytaemnestra.bsky.social. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGIz... #Python #PyPI #OpenSource

youtube.comInside PyPI: Maria Ashna on Supporting Python's Package Index [Full Episode]YouTube video by Behind the Commit
Mia Bajić@clytaemnestra.bsky.social

PyPI hit over 1 million users and it's maintained by a team of just a few people. I talked to Maria Ashna about what that actually looks like: clearing a 500+ ticket backlog, handling edge cases nobody thinks about, and what are PyPI organizations. Episode link is in the first comment.

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Paul Lee
@strivenword.com

The Python community has such a different structure than many other open source communities. I notice PEP 541 cites NPM and GitHub as well as Perl's package system, but NPM and GitHub have such different, more chaotic environments.