# Proposal to create a Python Packaging Council

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/proposal-to-create-a-python-packaging-council/25469>\
**Category:** Packaging\
**Created:** [April 5, 2023, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/proposal-to-create-a-python-packaging-council/25469 "2023-04-05T09:30:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![pradyunsg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/pradyunsg/32/206_2.png) [@pradyunsg](https://discuss.python.org/u/pradyunsg)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/proposal-to-create-a-python-packaging-council/25469/20 "2023-04-07T07:29:37Z")

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We’re retreading well-trodden paths in the conversation right now, so I’ll post a relevant link to something I wrote 3 months ago.

> **[How the Python Packaging community is organised](https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2023/01/14/python-packaging-organisation/)**
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> The way the Python packaging community is organised is something that I’ve explained in multiple places, in multiple contexts. I figure that it’ll be useful to actually write it down in a single place, so that I don’t have to repeat myself.
> The...

The naming is a bike-sheddy topic. I request folks to not derail this topic into a naming discussion for now, and instead respond to the questions put forward in the first post. If you want to argue about naming, go read [Remove the "Authority" from Packaging](https://discuss.python.org/t/remove-the-authority-from-packaging/1993) in its entirety and respond there.

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