Two weeks ago I asked the question again about What Rye should be. There has been one thing that I have not publicly shared before and that is that ever since Rye exists I have also been talking to Charlie Marsh about Python packaging and Python tooling. It turns out that we had some shared ideas of what an ideal Python tooling landscape would look like. That has lead to some very interesting back and forths. To make a potentially very long story short: Together with Astral's release of uv they will take stewardship of Rye. For the details read on.