Tangent: is it worthwhile to establish a consensus for best practices with package pinning and package management for Python projects in the Wikimedia ecosystem? When I last worked on a python project (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_Link) I found it confusing that we have so many different tools and approaches for doing these things, and seems like we'd benefit from having a standard, supported way. (Or maybe that already exists and I haven't found it?)
I'm working on an "
Essential Tools for Managing Python Development Environments" tutorial that will be published to the wikis when ready. Maybe that could be expanded upon? In my experience though, it can be hard to get people to agree on following a standard, especially when there are so many different options and many folks already have their favorite tools and workflows. But it would be nice to have a set of recommendations to reduce the cognitive load.