From 1481b60818a67868928441fa3a9b58c425f67630 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sumana Harihareswara Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:11:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Remove upload work from PyPI API revamp task Per https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/7730 , overhauling Warehouse's upload API requires a new PEP. The fundable improvement guidelines say we shouldn't ask for money for something till we have consensus for the idea, meaning that any PEPs are finished and approved. Thus, this commit removes the upload work from the list of features in the PyPI API revamp task. Signed-off-by: Sumana Harihareswara --- FUNDABLES.md | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/FUNDABLES.md b/FUNDABLES.md index 6f5fd28..4a8bbc2 100644 --- a/FUNDABLES.md +++ b/FUNDABLES.md @@ -65,32 +65,20 @@ downstream projects that depend on them. ### Revamp PyPI API -The [Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/), a key platform for Python developers, -has [a minimal API](https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/) that does not implement -[many features that users have -requested](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/labels/APIs%2Ffeeds). The lack of -a full-featured API in Warehouse (the PyPI codebase) blocks many improvements, -including: +The [Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/), a key platform for Python developers, has a browser interface, but most people use PyPI by hitting its [API endpoints](https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/#available-apis) with client applications such as `pip`. PyPI has [a minimal download API](https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/) that does not implement [many features that users have requested](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/labels/APIs%2Ffeeds). The lack of a full-featured download API in Warehouse (the PyPI codebase) blocks many improvements, including: - [Light-bandwidth metadata-only API calls](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/474) and [JSON standardization](https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7406#issuecomment-583891169) that would enable better downloads, installations, dependency resolution features, and troubleshooting for `pip` and other clients -- [Asynchronous - uploads](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/7730) and thus - [some validation checks](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/5420) and - [license compliance checking](https://discuss.python.org/t/improving-license-clarity-with-better-package-metadata/2154/71) - [RSS feeds](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/7013) that other platforms could reuse to get PyPI updates in user tooling -- [Release security features (via token - generation)](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/6378) - [Security notification feeds](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/798) - [Caching for the bandersnatch mirroring client](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/284) -This requires backend development work, technical writing, user experience -research, and publicity and coordination work within Python's community. +We'd like to [architect and implement a new Warehouse download API](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/284) to support these features, and deprecate and decommission the old endpoints. This requires backend development work, technical writing, user experience research, and publicity and coordination work within Python's community. ### Make setuptools the reference implementation of the distutils API