February 2022 report

Author: lovelydinosaur

reports/february-2022.md

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+layout: reports
+title: "February 2022"
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+## Triage
+
+One of my main aims this month has been to reduce the issue and pull request
+backlog across our projects. A lot of this ends up being able making sure that
+the projects are clearly scoped, and declining to accept feature work on
+projects.
+
+I'd like to see all of our projects in a position where we've only one or two
+pages worth of information on GitHub's issues or pull requests.
+
+I've written in the past about my thoughts on [sustainable open source
+management](https://www.dabapps.com/blog/sustainable-open-source-management/),
+and the importance of keeping projects tightly scoped.
+
+Here's how the triage work has gone this month. The numbers here are the total
+number of open issues and pull requests for each project at the start and
+end of the month:
+
+* Starlette: 147 → 67
+* Uvicorn: 135 → 87
+* REST framework: 224 → 231
+* HTTPX: 63 → 42
+
+Examples of a couple of other projects that I think are managing their issues in
+ways I'd like us to aspire to:
+
+* [Flask](https://github.com/pallets/flask), and the other Pallets projects. At
+  the time of writing, Flask has 14 open issues, and no open pull requests.
+  This is an outstanding example of good project maintenance, considering that
+  Flask is included as a dependancy by nearly 1 million GitHub repositories.
+* [MkDocs Material](https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material). Martin Donath
+  continues to manage this project with meticulous attention.
+
+Next month's report will again include the triage figures for these four
+projects. Clearly REST framework is going to need some seriously dedicated time
+in order to get into shape - hopefully that'll be easier to do once the other
+projects are all feeling sufficiently tightly managed.
+
+## API Stability
+
+Another important goal at the moment is reaching a 1.0 version for `httpx`.
+
+I've been working a bit this month on a couple of changes related to this:
+
+* Dropping our `charset-normalizer` dependancy. See [discussion #2083](https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/2083).
+* Dropping our `rfc3986` dependancy.

reports/index.md

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 ## 2022
 
+* [February 2022](february-2022)
 * [January 2022](january-2022)
 
 ## 2021