[Python-Dev] Adding a developer (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Wed Oct 20 17:42:19 CEST 2004

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:14:50AM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

I'm not sure it is a good idea to keep adding developers who do only a handful of checkins and disappear. This is doubly true if they are not

Agreed, but based on his track record it seems unlikely that Lars is going to vanish; he contributed the module on 2003/01/05, still maintains the code separately at http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/tarfile/, and has contributed 9 bugfixes since then (compared to 7 bugfixes from others). If we're adding Peter, who'll be maintaining a single module, then adding Lars seems equally reasonable.

I like the approach of adding people who will maintain a particular module or package. Long-term, I think it's more sustainable to have a larger number of developers, each person responsible for a small number of modules, than a small number of developers struggling to keep up with everything.

--amk

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