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Meeting Minutes: Oct 14, 2025

Meeting Minutes from Python Docs Editorial Board: Oct 14, 2025
October 14, 2025 · Mariatta

Attendees

Notes

  • Updates from the Education & Outreach WG
    • We learned about what their current goals are, and who the current members are.
    • Their goals are: Update python.org education and resource list, create a webpage instead of the wiki, build an official beginner tutorial, and to flesh out community and conference organizers’ toolkit.
    • Overlap with our scope: tutorials.
  • What are the action items with the Education & Outreach WG?
    • There was talk at the core sprint about adding a more interactive tutorial. Where do we want it to live, and what do we want to do?
    • We can offer help and support and leave it up to them
    • Encourage them in this effort
    • We’d love to see more education resources to not be directed to the wiki. E.g. the PSF website shouldn’t direct people to wiki about educational resources.
  • Can there be a group/person who can commit to maintaining the PSF wiki pages? Many aspects of the wiki are outdated.
    • The current Wiki’s accessibility is outdated
    • Could there be a different “wiki”-like platform?
    • Who/Where can we pass these opinions to, since these are out of our scope?
  • History of PSF wiki:
    • Moinmoin is the first wiki platform in Python. Original dev is no longer actively participating.
    • https://www.python.org/psf/workgroups/#education-outreach-work-group
    • Many pages in the wiki are now unmaintained
    • Some of the outdated wiki may still have important information
    • It would be great to go through the content, move information elsewhere, etc.
    • Who has permission to give edit access? Marc Andre.
  • Let’s continue to stay in touch with the Edu & Outreach WG.
    • Maybe we can share our opinion with them about the wiki. The wiki is not our scope.
  • What is our scope: Some pages in the wiki should be in the official Python doc. We can request to move content to Python doc, and ask them to delete from Wiki
  • Similarly: how to document free-threading?
    • Carol worked on an outline with others
      • It will be an issue in the public Quansight free-threaded repo
      • Aimed for the 3.15 time-frame
    • Possible topics to cover:
      • What does Python guarantee
      • How to write safe software
      • How to write performant software
        • Difficult because it changes over time
        • Will involve third-party libraries
  • Translations
    • The Transifex glossary was erased by a malicious translator (https://discuss.python.org/t/104357)
      • But it can be retrieved
    • Are other tools better for public groups with unknown levels of trust?
      • Offline update from Stan: The glossary issue could have been prevented by modifying the settings. Stan is conducting an audit to see if there are any other such gaps. However, this still leaves the major risk of the fact that malicious translations could be quite easily injected into the official docs. This is quite a complicated topic, and not so much related to the tool.