[Python-Dev] Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Feb 28 14:57:14 CET 2013

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

2013/2/28 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>: > > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Michael Foord <_ _fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> > wrote: >> >> >> On 28 Feb 2013, at 07:36, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: >> >> > Am 27.02.2013 17:51, schrieb Michael Foord: >> >> Hello all, >> >> >> >> PyCon, and the Python Language Summit, is nearly upon us. We have a >> >> good number of people confirmed to attend. If you are intending to come to >> >> the language summit but haven't let me know please do so. >> >> >> >> The agenda of topics for discussion so far includes the following: >> >> >> >> * A report on pypy status - Maciej and Armin >> >> * Jython and IronPython status reports - Dino / Frank >> >> * Packaging (Doug Hellmann and Monty Taylor at least) >> >> * Cleaning up interpreter initialisation (both in hopes of finding >> >> areas >> >> to rationalise and hence speed things up, as well as making things >> >> more embedding friendly). Nick Coghlan >> >> * Adding new async capabilities to the standard library (Guido) >> >> * cffi and the standard library - Maciej >> >> * flufl.enum and the standard library - Barry Warsaw >> >> * The argument clinic - Larry Hastings >> >> >> >> If you have other items you'd like to discuss please let me know and I >> >> can add them to the agenda. >> > >> > May I in absentia propose at least a short discussion of the XML fixes >> > and accompanying security releases? FWIW, for 3.2 and 3.3 I have no >> > objections to secure-by-default. >> > >> >> Sure. It would be good if someone who will be there can champion the >> discussion. > > > While Christian is in the best position to discuss this, I did review his > various monkeypatch fixes + expat patches so I can attempt to answer any > questions people may have.

How close are they to being applied?

I have no idea. Ask Christian. =) I can just answer what the attacks are and what had to change to protect against them. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20130228/2064d5cb/attachment.html>

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