Sumana Harihareswara
Maintainer of the Maintainers
pip’s resolver, PyPI funding, and taking project management seriously
Rating
80Impact score
Domains
Python packagingProject managementOpen source sustainability
Scouting report
Led the successful grant-funded work to replace pip’s dependency resolver, a change every Python user benefits from and almost nobody noticed. Has worked on Wikimedia engineering community, Zulip and MediaWiki, and writes seriously about the unglamorous parts of open source: release management, funding, and how maintainers burn out.
Curator’s note
Fixed pip’s resolver. Consider what your builds were like before.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Sumana Harihareswara by Guillaume Paumier, licensed CC BY 3.0.
Sources
- 01Sumana Harihareswara en.wikipedia.org
- 02The pip resolver rollout pyfound.blogspot.com