For the duration of 2025, I’m thrilled to join the Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Maintainers! This is a pilot programme from the Sovereign Tech Agency to pay maintainers of critical open source technologies in the public interest. I’m one of six participants in this first cohort and I’ll be working on Python, with a focus on CPython, including as release manager for Python 3.14 (under development with full release due in October 2025, supported until 2030) and the next one (development ...