[Python-Dev] Encouraging developers (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Mar 7 11:10:22 CET 2007

Giovanni Bajo schrieb:

On 06/03/2007 10.52, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

I can't see that the barrier at contributing is high. I think this says it all. It now appears obvious to me that people inside the "mafia" don't even realize there is one. Thus, it looks like we are all wasting time in this thread, since they think there is nothing to be changed.

I can feel your pain that your (only) patch was unreviewed for three years. If it makes you happy to blame somebody feel free to, but I feel it is unfair to blame the single person that eventually did review and commit your patch.

You may ask yourself why this specific patch was unreviewed for so long. My own explanation is that it is a highly complicated algorithm (as any kind of cryptographical algorithm), so nobody felt qualified to review it. I'm pretty sure it was looked at often (contrary to your remark in [1]), but none of the people reading it were qualified to comment.

So if you want to work on encryption still, please go ahead.

Regards, Martin

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-November/293510.html

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