User experience issues

Work in progress toward https://wiki.python.org/psf/Pip2020DonorFundedRoadmap .

Test edit. - GB

"starter" notes from @pradyunsg:

I think the "Improve User Experience" would be a good place to go after looking at this list. There's some overlap with that list of issues and the ones I've listed here:

• User facing interface for building Python packages
  • The tip of this iceberg is here: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6041
• Revisiting pip's output format
  • An old issue with some of the past discussion: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4649
    • Related note about why the structure proposed there wouldn't work.
    • https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4649#issuecomment-333690763
  • A proper dependency resolver will not fit into our current approach very well.
    • We'd probably want a high-bandwidth discussion on this.
• Identifying what functionality is "key" to most of our users
  • Old issue tracking that: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6182
    • (there's not much context there, so elaborating here)
  • pip has a large-ish CLI surface area
    • Lots of flags/options which result in nuanced behaviors.
    • Difficult to identify what functionality is used by our users.
    • Difficult to identify what functionality doesn't work as per user expectations.
  • Goal would be to understand the CLI-based workflows better, to later simplify it CLI.
    • see also: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/6099