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Yesterday’s post described an important development project currently being undertaken by the PSF called Warehouse. This will redevelop and improve the Python Package Index,  PyPI . I wanted to let you know about a particular issue that the developers are currently trying to solve–that of translation into languages other than English. Yesterday, Donald Stufft wrote to the PSF community mailing list , soliciting help from Pythonistas with experience and knowledge in non-English coding, translating, teaching, or other relevant expertise. The desire is to support translations of the PyPI UI (user interface). Most, but not all, PyPI content is in English, which typically isn’t and shouldn’t be a problem. But the UI aspires to be  more welcoming to folks who either are not native English speakers, or may not speak English at all. The current translation engine for PyPI is L20n.js, but the drawback is that this client-side engine only supports more modern  evergreen  brows...

Warehouse is the new codebase being developed to power the Python Packaging Index (PyPI). Python developers and users already know that PyPI is the official comprehensive repository of third-party open source Python packages (see Wikipedia ). PyPI, maintained by the PSF, is where developers publish their software modules and from which package managers, such as pip, download packages. Given the important role played by PyPI, the Warehouse project is bound to have a huge impact on the continued use and growth of Python.  While many volunteers have been working on the project, the biggest contributions have come from lead developer Donald Stufft and web-design specialist, Nicole Harris. Donald, based in the US, is a core contributor to PyPI (as well as to CPython, pip, virtualenv, Django & Cryptography), while UK-based Nicole runs a web development business,  Kabu Creative . The design goals, as stated on Nicole's website , were: To update the visual identity  To make p...

Last month I posted about the wonderful work of Terri Oda, who was recognized with a Community Service Award. Today’s post is about another 2015 Fourth Quarter CSA recipient, Berker Peksağ, who will be receiving a Community Service Award   … for his consistent volunteer efforts with pydotorg in 2015  (see  Resolutions ). As many of you know, pydotorg has been undergoing renovation for a long time now. It has been, and continues to be, a labor of love involving many people (the Python infrastructure team, Marc-André Lemburg, and Benjamin Peterson, to name just a few). Still, the work done by Berker over the past year has been remarkable, resulting in significant improvement to the site and to users' experience.  His contributions in 2015 include: Helping get the second redesign working on the staging website Working on the new job board  with Marc-André Lemburg Helping fix bugs on python.org (e.g., corrections to URLS for Python downloads; scrolling issues on lan...