Tidelift's annual managed open source survey explores how technologists use open source to build applications at work. Over 600 people shared how ...
One of the most popular packages on PyPI, urllib3, is continuing to maintain backwards compatibility with Python 2 and 3.5, while charging ahead on a ...
Seth Larson has a history of adopting unmaintained open source libraries. It’s not that he seeks out orphaned packages—it’s usually because an ...
Package signing across package managers Recently I looked at the state of 2FA support across package managers. 2FA adds a layer of security by ...
PyParsing is a Python parsing module that offers an alternative approach to creating and executing simple grammars—without the traditional lex/yacc ...
We believe that working with maintainers to create coordinated security vulnerability policies is important. Why? Here’s one story to illustrate.
When we hosted our first ever lifter event earlier this year, we asked the open source maintainers in attendance to imagine the future of open ...
Claudiu Popa, core maintainer of Python linter Pylint, became involved with the project by fixing a couple bugs. It’s a common tale in the world of ...