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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 09 Mar 2002 21:54:07 -0500

[MvL]

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.

I think I see consensus to give the new folks checkin permission right away, but encourage them to submit their code to the SF patch manager first until they've got the hang of it.

Skip, can you tell them this?

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