I'm Running for the Python Packaging Council

Python’s packaging ecosystem is getting its first elected governance body: the Python Packaging Council. Five seats, seventeen nominees, and I’m one of them.

PEP 772 creates the council to fix a structural problem. The Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) has long coordinated packaging tools and standards, but its governance was informal: no elections, no regular meetings, no direct accountability to the community. The Packaging Council formalizes that authority. It will make binding decisions on packaging standards, tools, and implementations under a mandate from the Python Steering Council. One of its first jobs is defining how it works with PyPA.

The other nominees:

• Brett Cannon — CPython core dev, PEP 621 and PEP 751 author
• Pradyun Gedam — pip maintainer, PEP 772 co-author
• Paul Moore — pip maintainer, PEP delegate for interoperability standards
• Donald Stufft — PyPI administrator, author of twine
• Henry Schreiner — pybind11, cibuildwheel, scikit-build
• Ralf Gommers — NumPy and SciPy maintainer, WheelNext
• Bernat Gabor — virtualenv, tox, pipx
• William Woodruff — pip-audit, PyPI Trusted Publishing
• Jonathan Dekhtiar — co-created WheelNext, PEP 817 and PEP 825 co-author
• Cary Hawkins — Hatch and Hatchling maintainer
• Eli Schwartz — Meson build system core dev
• Lucas Colley — SciPy steering council, Pixi core maintainer
• Dan Yeaw — leads Anaconda’s conda OSS team, built conda-pypi bridge
• Axel Obermeier — conda-forge core team
• Matthias Köppe — transformed SageMath into 120+ PyPI packages
• Saurav Singla — enterprise Python, data science at NPCI

If you’re a PSF Voting Member, affirm your membership by August 25 to receive a ballot. Voting runs September 1–15 via OpaVote.