The survey is at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/M5XKQCT.
These are connected things.
I maintain a PyPA member project (and contribute to many others), and the latter is aided by the former: the mission statement keeps the community organized around shared goals (such as standardizing Python's packaging tooling), and inclusivity insures a healthy and steady flow of new contributors (and potential corporate funding sources).
THANK YOU!
> keeps the community organized around shared goals (such as standardizing Python's packaging tooling)
Personally I felt some disconnect between "package manager for all" and the need for "standardizing Python's packaging tooling." Yes, communities should be welcoming and friendly to everyone, AND the community should have clear expectations for best practices that members should follow. E.g., is an experienced female developer more likely to give up on contributing because she couldn't find a local meetup, or because she didn't know whether to create pyproject.toml vs requirements.txt? In some sense, the bigger and more diverse the community, the greater the need for a clear, solid foundation. IDK if that's remotely clear; it's just a feeling I had going through some of those questions.
The fiasco was that he was not the best at maintaining projects, and used his popularity from tablib and requests to get pipenv recommended by the PyPA well before it was ready for general use. Then around the same time there was a few scandals I don't remember the details of, something about a developer being mad that Kenneth kept the money being donated to requests. It ended up with all of his popular projects being maintained by others.
I wish the response from the PyPA was to go full in on pipenv and just keep improving it at the same rate it was in the beginning. Instead it stagnated. Poetry came out fragmenting the ecosystem even more. And quite a few developers gave up on virtual environments in favor of docker.
pipenv started having regular releases again and have kept it going for the past few years. I like it enough to not want to put any effort into switching, but in 2017/2018 it really felt like the next big thing. It makes me sad to think that we all lost out because of politics.
Ended up switching to Poetry because it had a superior dependency resolution algorithm.
The only question I have is, what grant application(s) is the survey data being used to support?