Python Packaging Council has a GitHub repository!

pradyunsg · October 16, 2026, 9:56pm

Hi folks!

We’ve just made the GitHub repository for the Python Packaging Council into a publicly visible repository.

We’re going to post the meeting notes from all our meetings there – you can find the public meeting notes of our meetings so far! We’ve finalized the public notes by the next meeting at the latest (so 1 week later).

We’d like to use the issue tracker as our inbox – please file an issue if there’s something you’d like the PPC to decide on/provide inputs on.

We can also be messaged privately as @packaging-council on discuss.python.org here.

pradyunsg · October 20, 2026, 1:50pm

One last post from me, sharing the notes from last week’s meeting:

github.com/python/packaging-council

meeting-notes/2026-10-12-packaging-council-notes.md

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# Python Packaging Council meeting notes (12 October 2026)

## Attendees

- Donald Stufft
- Henry Schreiner
- Pradyun Gedam
- Ralf Gommers

## Discussion Notes

- We agreed that the [packaging-council repository](https://github.com/python/packaging-council) is ready to be made public!
  - The README, repository structure, initial issues, and labels are in place.
  - We’ll announce it publicly and invite people to add topics to our agenda.
    - That should be enough for now; we don’t plan to actively go looking for more issues just yet.
- We caught up on meeting notes and our review process.
  - We approved the notes from the previous two weeks, included in [PR #4](https://github.com/python/packaging-council/pull/4) alongside the initial repository setup.
  - We agreed to disable auto-merge and land [PR #5](https://github.com/python/packaging-council/pull/5), which aligns the filenames and titles with the SC’s updates.
  - We’ll keep using our shared (private) document for working notes, with its public-notes tab for reviewing drafts.
- We discussed who should be able to sponsor packaging PEPs.

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I will re-iterate that we’ll be posting notes in that repository – and I’m not going to be posting a link to notes on discuss.python.org every week.

hugovk · October 20, 2026, 4:18pm

Please could you add notes via PR, even if you self-merge right away?

That way we can watch the repo and get notifications about the new notes.

pradyunsg · October 20, 2026, 4:19pm

Yes, that’s what we’re doing!