I'm stepping down as sponsor of Emscripten

[encukou (Petr Viktorin)]

@encukou

Improving CPython project processes (figuring out how community support for a platform should work)

See here:

Community support for a platform

Continuing the discussion from Proposed update to PEP-11 on Unsupporting a platform (less draconian measures): And does it matter to them? We handle/close issues based on whether a volunteer wants to work on them. IMO, PEP-11 is mostly a summary of what we want to work on, written for Python devs/triagers – so that you know who to bug for a particular platform, or whether you should “revert first and fix later” when something goes red. For users, there’s very little actionable information in …

[hoodmane (Hood Chatham)]

To be clear, I’ll be happy to help with things like: …

Thanks @encukou, we really appreciate it!

[brettcannon]

@encukou

I will assume @hoodmane, @rth, @ryanking13 can speak for Pyodide, and @pmp-p is interested in Emscripten too. So let’s ping y’all and wait for your opinions when it comes to Emscripten/browser support.

FYI I’m hoping to remove Emscripten references from the docs for Python 3.13.

I also plan to drop Emscripten-related files in cpython/Tools/wasm at main · python/cpython · GitHub that are not being used by a buildbot to make sure they are still working in Python 3.14 (since it’s mostly helper scripts I don’t think it will be that impactful).

[encukou (Petr Viktorin)]

People interested in supporting Emscripten are now listed in the Experts index.

I suggest treating this as handing over platform support to projects like Pyodide, rather than dropping it :‍)