[Python-Dev] Two developer candidates (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
09 Mar 2002 23:28:09 +0100

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

Great! I have one reservation, but maybe I should be talked out of it: I don't recall seeing patches submitted to SF by either of these. Maybe we need to give them a trial period where they submit their work to SF first?

I think anybody should submit patches to SF first unless you are 100% sure that the patch fixes the problem in an undebatable way, and perhaps unless it is you.

Being able to say "this is fine, please check it in (replacing the C++ style comment with a C style comment)" already helps reducing the load on the reviewer.

Unless the new contributors are very careful, I'm sure they will break the CVS sooner or later. Unless this happens a week before the 2.3 release, I have no problem with that.

Regards, Martin