Pydantic Roadmap 🏎️

[sydney-runkle]

Below is a (by no means exhaustive) list of current priorities. Community feedback is more than welcome 🌟!

Pydantic

• Support validate strings, implementing validate_strings pydantic-core#883
• Warn about inheriting from Generic before BaseModel  #7845 (goes with Undocumented different behaviors of handling generic types in v1 and v2 #6994)
• Proper support for functional discriminators #7462
• Better documentation / consensus on desired behavior for Overloading attribute using computed_field causes unexpected behavior #7577
• Pydantic computed field example values #7864
• Support for validate_call with generics #7796
• Known Union Issues 🐞  #7946
• Config / runtime option for SerializeAsAny #6423

Documentation

• Documentation for pydantic-core types
• Add Pydantic People Section to Our Docs #7576
• Docs should be consistent on whether validation is a primary purpose or not #3884
• Performance tips docs page #7323
• Improve cross links between Usage and API Documentation sections in the docs #8079
• Update V2 Documentation for Custom Fields / Custom Types #7534

Miscellaneous

• Release improvements Release improvements #7244 (comment)
• Get test coverage back up to 100% #7656
• Drop Python3.7 support #7188

[sydney-runkle]

Closing in favor of a milestone approach. Going to try that out for the next release 👍. Will return to the issue-hub strategy if we prefer that after some experimentation.