separately from the internal release, my goals right now are to get 6022 (pydist tag build) and 5998 (conan) mergeable and both happen to be failing with the error described in 6099 (and i suspect this may at least give insight into what the remaining osx shard failure on 6022 was, if not fix it) so let me know if i can help out on any of the above without being one cook too many because i can justify spending a thursday on it (but not a blocker right now, so no rush)