July 2021 was an exciting month for the Python community! The Python Software Foundation hired the first-ever CPython Developer-in-Residence—a full-time paid position devoted to CPython development. In other news from the CPython developer team, tracebacks and error messages got some much-needed attention.
Let’s dive into the biggest Python news from the past month!
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CPython Has a Full-Time Developer-in-Residence
In our June news roundup, we featured the Python Software Foundation’s announcement that they were hiring a CPython Developer-in-Residence. In July, the PSF’s plans came to fruition with the hiring of Łukasz Langa.
Łukasz, a CPython core developer and active member of the Python community, may be familiar to Real Python readers. In Episode 7 of the Real Python Podcast, Łukasz joined host Chris Bailey to talk about the origins of the Black code formatter, his experience as the Python release manager for Python 3.8 and 3.9, and how he melds Python with his interest in music.
As the first CPython Developer-in-Residence, Łukasz is responsible for:
- Addressing pull requests and issue backlog
- Performing analytical research to understand volunteer hours and funding for CPython
- Investigating project priorities and their tasks going forward
- Working on project priorities
In Łukasz’s statement about his new role, he describes his reaction to the announcement that the PSF was hiring:
When the PSF first announced the Developer in Residence position, I was immediately incredibly hopeful for Python. I think it’s a role with transformational potential for the project. In short, I believe the mission of the Developer in Residence (DIR) is to accelerate the developer experience of everybody else. This includes not only the core development team, but most importantly the drive-by contributors submitting pull requests and creating issues on the tracker. (Source)
Łukasz maintains a log of his work each week in a series of weekly reports on his personal website. During his first week on the job, he closed fourteen issues and fifty-four pull requests (PRs), reviewed nine PRs, and authored six of his own PRs.
“Don’t get too excited though about those numbers,” Łukasz writes in his first weekly report. “The way CPython is developed, many changes start on the main branch, and then get back ported to [Python] 3.10 and often also to 3.9. So some changes are tripled in those stats.”
The transparency that the weekly reports offer is refreshing and provides a unique look behind the scenes of the role. Future applicants will have a fantastic resource to help them understand what the job entails, what is working well, and where improvements can be made.
Łukasz wrote two weekly reports in July:
Read the full article at https://realpython.com/python-news-july-2021/ »
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