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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jan 3 22:02:27 CET 2008

On Jan 3, 2008 11:40 AM, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:15:04AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: -> We're getting a fair number of doc contributions, especially since the -> docs were converted from Latex to ReST, and especially since the start -> of the GHOP project. -> -> 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.

What needs to be done with 2.6? I'm happy to review patches, although even were commit access on offer I'm too scatterbrained to do a good job of it.

IMO the main issue with 2.6 is not handling bugs and patches but backporting 3.0 stuff. There's a spreadsheet somewhere that shows there's a huge amount of work to be done: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pCKY4oaXnT81FrGo3ShGHGg (if you can't access it, try the published version: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pCKY4oaXnT81FrGo3ShGHGg )

Incidentally, I'm planning to set up an SVK repos containing the GHOP doc patches; that way they can stay sync'ed with 2.6 work. I'd be happy to do the same thing with reviewed-and-probably-OK patches, although I don't know if repository proliferation is a generally good idea ;).

IMO patches should just be applied to the trunk ASAP.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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