TL;DR: On 2024-12-17, we'll be taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for building and installing portable Python distributions. You can read Gregory's own announcement here. python-build-standalone powers Python installation for uv, Rye, mise, Bazel's rules_python, pipx, Hatch, and more, with over 70,000,000 downloads since its release. For much of the ecosystem, it's now the primary source of Python installations. But given Gregory's shifting open s...