Hi everyone, I am a former scientist turned backend-y/data-y software engineer. I worked at a small ecomm company with a large-ish Python monorepo, and one of few who thought it needed tender love and care rather than to be broken apart (build/lint/test times slow, the usual). Found pants while researching monorepo stories and tooling. Intrigued by the internal design after watching several talks, which seems sophisticated by necessity rather than for kicks. Tried it on a small side project and it worked great. Was going to try it on the monorepo, but the clock ran out on Tuesday when I was swept away in our second big round of layoffs. My first thought was "What a relief, finally some time to learn something new, like pants." So I am here setting up pants itself for development, to learn about its internals and maybe at some point become useful to the project. On that note - what is the best place to ask questions relating to setting up/navigating the pants source code itself? (for example for issues coming up while following https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/contributor-setup)

Welcome, but sorry to hear about the layoffs.

Welcome to our amazing community! For questions related to pants itself #development is a good place to go.