Publishing binaries to the Bazel Central Registry

[jwnimmer-tri]

Hello team,

As a user of Bazel, I would like to consume ruff as a Bazel Module from the Bazel Central Registry. Publishing to the registry allows the binary to be directly used by Bazel rules, without indirecting through some other packaging ecosystem such as PyPI. This is typically both easier and more efficient.

The registry is open source. I could publish ruff on my own to the registry, but I wanted to ask if the Ruff team would like to collaborate and/or host the registry code in your GitHub organization, to make it slightly more canonical (even if unofficial / community-supported). The publishing can be automated (or at least, semi-automated) via the publish-to-bcr-bot.

I already have a prototype developed at RobotLocomotion/ruff_prebuilt for use by Drake. If you are interested, I could transfer that (or re-push it) to https://github.com/astral-sh for community ownership, while continuing my contributions of upkeep / issues.

Any preference for how I should proceed?

[ntBre]

Thank you for reaching out! I don't think we have much experience with the Bazel Central Registry, so we'd be happy for you to maintain it separately. But let us know if there's anything we can do to help!