[Python-Dev] Contributing to Python (original) (raw)

Joseph Armbruster josepharmbruster at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 21:24:16 CET 2008

Titus,

Having a "core mentor" would be great but do they really have time for that? I've been lucky at finding people in #python / #python-dev) that can answer development inquiries (or at least verify something is or is not a bug).

With respects to the bug tracker, when I select Search and Python 2.6, I retrieved 208 open bugs. At a quick glance, I found two that were windows, but not tagged appropriately. If it's worthwhile, I can spend some time this evening browsing the list of current 2.6 bugs to see if there are any duplicates, collisions, etc.

Joseph Armbruster

On Jan 3, 2008 2:53 PM, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:49:27PM -0500, Fred Drake wrote: -> On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: -> > My main gripe is with code contributions to Py3k and 2.6; Py3k is -> > mostly done by a handful of people, and almost nobody is working much -> > on 2.6. -> -> For those of us still using Python 2.4 and earlier, it's hard to be -> motivated to worry about Python 3.0, no matter how wonderful it -> looks. (It doesn't help that my own available time appears to -> decrease daily with the kids and all.) -> -> Python 2.6 seems to be entirely targeted at people who really want to -> be on Python 3, but have code that will need to be ported. I -> certainly don't view it as interesting in it's own right.

3k and 26 are, however, the only place where we can propose new features -- which makes it the place for cleanup and additional testing, as well as backwards-incompatible bug fixes... --titus

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