Reports from the Python Language Summit
The Python Software Foundation has published aset of reports from the 2024 Python Language summit. Topics coveredinclude version numbering, the limited C API, a new default read-eval-printloop, and Python's security model in light of the XZ backdoor:
For multiple reasons like being able to fix bugs andsingle-maintainer modules, CPython doesn't require reviewers on thepull requests of core developers. This can lead to "unilateralaction", meaning that a change is introduced into CPython withoutthe review of someone besides the author. Other situations likerelease managers backporting fixes to other branches without revieware common.