[Python-Dev] GSoC student introduction and sandbox commit privileges request (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 23 02:02:49 CEST 2008

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel <rbp at isnomore.net> wrote:

Hi there,

I've just been accepted into this year's Google Summer of Code, to work for the Python Software Foundation on 2to3. My project is to give 2to3 fixers the ability to rank how confident they are on each fix, and let users choose to intervene manually whenever that confidence level is below a certain threshold. Among other things, this might allow fixers for situations where the code translation is not always guaranteed to be correct (like % string formatting, which came up recently in another thread). The full proposal is at http://isnomore.net/2to3 . Collin Winter will be my mentor, and I'd like to thank him and Christian Heimes for all the help they gave me in designing the project. I'd also like to thank Martin Löwis, for discussing a project with me which ended up not turning into a proposal, but helped me write the 2to3 one. Finally, I'd like to request commit privileges to work on a sandbox branch, during the Summer of Code.

Isn't this a chance for bzr to shine? With lib2to3 in the 3.0 bzr branch, can't Rodrigo and the other students who don't have some funky requirement just use bzr?

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me. I'm really looking forward to working on this project!

Thanks for contributing!

-Brett

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