Hi, I'm looking for some help from Python developers who write PyPI packages (or open source software that depends on PyPI packages). My research group is interested in the impacts of different choices package managers make when designing their ecosystems -- e.g. Python/PyPi, Hackage and R/CRAN. We'd like to know what the implications of PyPI's design choices are on Python programmers' collaboration when making breaking changes among packages, and what you think PyPI's design is trying to accomplish.
Could I ask people to take ~20 minutes of your time and fill out our survey at http://breakingapis.org/survey ? I'll report back here when we've analyzed the results (or there's a sign up link to be notified when results are out at http://breakingapis.org ). (If you don't use PyPI, but do use some other software ecosystem, like Node.js/NPM, CPAN, Erlang/Hex, or something else, we're still interested -- just make a different "software ecosystem" choice on the first page. The study is a comparison among ecosystems; PyPI is one point of comparison). Thanks, Chris Bogart Institute for Software Research Carnegie Mellon University -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
