"Keynote: Changelong"

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Argues that big non-code changes — the change long of processes, governance, docs and tooling — require the same proposals, reviews and records as code. Gives specifics: Python kept 2.x and 3.x for 14 years, accepted pattern matching after ~20 years of debate, migrated source to Git/GitHub starting 2017 and only recently moved a 15-year issue tracker, archived a 1999 mailing list in favor of Discourse, and still uses reStructuredText since 2002 while only 128 people currently vote in steering elections.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:29What is changelog
3. 2:32Why changelogs matter
4. 3:58Deprecations and changes
5. 7:39Human changes are hard
6. 10:13Pushback against change
7. 15:38Cost of resisting change
8. 16:00Python’s evolution
9. 25:03Non-code changes as code
10. 26:10Change processes
11. 29:03Wishlist for Python
12. 32:39Call to action

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