On the PSF front, I’m pleased to be able to share the following recommendation to the Board on behalf of the current Packaging Working Group:
The PSF’s Packaging Working Group was created primarily to give the PSF Board and staff advice on effectively directing sponsorship funds earmarked to support PyPI and the wider Python packaging ecosystem. We believe the proposed Packaging Council will be able to perform that role more effectively than the WG is able to do in its current form. Accordingly, the current Packaging WG explicitly endorses PEP 772’s proposal to dissolve the WG and replace it with a Packaging Council directly elected by the PSF’s voting membership, and recommends that the PSF Board vote in favour of the PEP.
(And back to speaking solely for myself again). That recommendation isn’t binding on the Board (none of our recommendations are), but the PEP falls squarely in the area of responsibility where the PSF staff and/or Board would historically request our advice, so I figured we should put forward an explicit statement from the WG before the PEP was formally submitted. The wording is intentionally broad, so as long as the “directly elected by the PSF’s voting membership” aspect of the proposal remains intact, the endorsement will hold.