I really hope they don't kill off uv or turn it into some way to sell OpenAI services. But I suspect that's exactly what's going to happen :(

I don't know. yarn never really turned into a vehicle to sell Facebook, though you always kind of transiently knew it was FB that offered it. I imagine that sort of transient advertising is it's own value, too.

As much as I dislike facebook they have been pretty good stewards of their open source projects and mostly seem to let them stay isolated.

Time for the PSF to consider something inspired by uv as a native solution.

The core-adjacent people have completely failed to produce reasonable packaging tools for decades, why would you want another new tool from them?

Who said anything about it coming from core-adjacent people?

Was Kenneth Reitz "core-adjacent" when Requests was brought under the PSF umbrella?

Is there anyone seriously involved in packaging who is neither working at Astral nor a PyPA member?

Well, if I didn't have a bunch of other ideas for things to work on, and if I felt like anyone cared, there would be me....