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Pantsbuild Open Source Community Newsletter - Issue #4

Pantsbuild Open Source Community Newsletter - Issue #4
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Pants 2 now supports Python, Go, Java, Scala, and Shell. We’re constantly adding more features and languages. 100 releases in the past year to the core project alone. Pants 2 was built from the ground up for you. We maintain enthusiastic commitment to soliciting and prioritizing community-contributed ideas, insights, writing, PRs. Come say hi on Slack. Our users rave about the warm community, thorough tech support, and comprehensive docs. Welcome!

Announcements
You can call us Pantsbuild (or Pants, whichever you prefer)
You can call us Pantsbuild (or Pants, whichever you prefer)
As more and more people start using and discovering Pants, we’ve discovered that it’s difficult to talk about the tool without introducing it as The Pants Build System, which isn’t very snappy or easy to remember. Especially in titles of posts or in tweets
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We've rewritten the "Welcome to Pants" page
We've rewritten the "Welcome to Pants" page
What do you think of the new version? Suggestions welcome! What else makes Pants stand out for you? Feel free to either use the “Suggest Edits” button at the top right of the docs page, open a new issue, or come chat with us on the community Slack.
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Meet our newest Maintainer: Joshua Cannon
Meet our newest Maintainer: Joshua Cannon
The Pants Maintainers are a group of people with an ongoing commitment to Pants, who help manage and steer the project. Maintainers are a subgroup within the wider Contributor population. I’m very pleased to introduce the latest addition to the Maintainer ranks: Joshua Cannon…
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Pants in the news
A brief intro to the Pants build system | InfoWorld
A brief intro to the Pants build system | InfoWorld
Pants is a fast, remote-friendly, and ergonomic build tool for multiple languages including Python, Go, Java, and Scala. Let’s take a look.
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How-to
Developing Your First Pants Plugin
Developing Your First Pants Plugin
“If you’ve never written a plugin for Pantsbuild but you really want to, this is definitely the post for you. If you’ve never heard of Pantsbuild, you’re in for a treat…”
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Packaging Python with the PyOxidizer Pants Plugin
Packaging Python with the PyOxidizer Pants Plugin
Suresh Joshi introduces the PyOxidizer plugin that lands in the upcoming Pants v2.10. Packaging and deploying Python get even easier. “Now I, at long last, have a fully integrated end-to-end Python workflow that starts with me typing code and ends with a fully tested executable binary.”
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Choosing a Python interpreter for a Pants project
Choosing a Python interpreter for a Pants project
“Choosing a compatible Python interpreter carefully is important not only for developers, but for the Pants repository administrators as well. Developers using Pants build system in their project may see various errors and have different behaviors depending on the Python interpreter…”
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Releases
pants-jupyter-plugin 0.0.5
pants-jupyter-plugin 0.0.5
Jupyter support for Pants projects and PEX files.
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Overheard
Thank, Martim! Consider this shoutout too to the amazing OSS community that’s grown around our shared value of developer joy. ❤️
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Community
We very pleased to announce that Suresh "SJ" Joshi has been recognized as a Pants Contributor.
We very pleased to announce that Suresh "SJ" Joshi has been recognized as a Pants Contributor.
Congrats SJ! Thanks for your contributions so far, and welcome to the team! Since joining the community, SJ has been a regular and friendly presence on Slack. He’s submitted a significant PR for experimental PyOxidizer support, and has blogged about how to write plugins. SJ has more plugin contribs in the pipeline, and is excited to get more involved.
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It's our pleasure to announce Rhys Madigan has joined the official ranks of Pants project, as a Contributor
It's our pleasure to announce Rhys Madigan has joined the official ranks of Pants project, as a Contributor
Contributions so far include:
- Added duration and cache source to test output
- A warning when trying to build cloud functions on MacOS
- Updates to Python module mapping
Rhys brings a thoughtful, informed and inclusive perspective to discussions about user experience, which his work has helped improve. We look forward to more contributions from him in the future. Congrats Rhys! Thanks for your work so far, and welcome to the team. 🎉
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We're never gonna give it up.
Once you’ve heard the new Pants theme song, you can never get it out of your head. https://t.co/WzhVxkuWXE
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What's ahead
Add plugin support for building PyOxidizer apps by sureshjoshi · Pull Request #14183 · pantsbuild/pants
Add plugin support for building PyOxidizer apps by sureshjoshi · Pull Request #14183 · pantsbuild/pants
Adding a new experimental plugin for creating executable binaries using PyOxidizer.We would love your feedback on the approach, if you have time. In particular it attempts to template the entire PyOxidizer config for the limited case of a single input wheel. Thank you to new Pants Contributor Suresh Joshi for this addition.
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Hiring
Pants empowers companies to scale codebases faster, collaborate more effectively across teams, and keep the focus centered on developers’ joy and productive. Here are some opportunities to check out:
  • IBM is seeking a Build Systems Engineer for the Watson Orders group. You’ll help own, manage, and develop the common runtime and build tooling for the IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software. Including the core build tooling for the Python monorepo, which is currently undergoing migration from Bazel to Pants. Bonus: get to work with Pants Maintainer Joshua Cannon!
  • Orca Security is seeking a Tech Lead - Developer Productivity in Tel Aviv who is passionate about the development lifecycle and the developer experience.
  • Interested in enhancing developer productivity with simple yet impactful work? Love to build frameworks and tools for smart engineers? Join the infrastructure team at Rippling in India, US, Canada or remote.
  • Nike is hiring software engineers. Search at https://jobs.nike.com/ for latest engineering openings.
Are you hiring too? You’re invited to announce opportunities on the Pants community Slack. Job postings are welcome in #general or #random.
Show off your impeccable taste in build systems
It’s easy to add your organization to the list too, using the link at the bottom of the page. Go for it!
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Resources
Quick Tip
JUnit XML results files support
JUnit XML results files support
A user recently asked on Slack, “I’m running `pants test` in CI and I want to get the list of failed test in a structured output, but also have the dynamic UI in CI. Is it possible?”
The answer is yes! `–test-xml-dir` will output junit.xml format structured output. Learn more about Pants’ JUnit XML results support at https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/python-test-goal#junit-xml-results.
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