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Treat Python Package managers as distinct groups #11129

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We grouped the Python PR's to avoid noise. However, what I've observed in practice is we (and our users) care more about staying up to date on the package managers and not so much if the internal libraries used in our helpers stay up to date.

So by breaking the package managers themselves out as distinct groups, it allows us to quickly move forward on those, without getting blocked if there's a breaking change in a minor helper library.

Here's an example of exactly this problem:

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We should probably do the same thing for npm because it's getting grouped in with the other node related packages... but upgrading npm has a much larger blast radius, so something we'd probably only want to do on its own.

We grouped the Python PR's to avoid noise. However, what I've observed in practice is we (and our users) care more about staying up to date on the package managers and not so much if the internal libraries used in our helpers stay up to date.

So by breaking the package managers themselves out as distinct groups, it allows us to quickly move forward on those, without getting blocked if there's a breaking change in a minor helper library.

Here's an example of exactly this problem:
* #11107 (comment)
@jeffwidman jeffwidman force-pushed the split-out-python-package-managers-as-distinct-groups branch from 85c24ef to e6a8931 Compare January 3, 2025 19:10
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@jeffwidman jeffwidman merged commit f351253 into main Jan 3, 2025
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