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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sat Jan 5 23:36:23 CET 2008

Mike Klaas wrote:

Question: should patches include edits to whatsnew.rst, or is the committer responsible for adding a note?

A patch should contain edits for Misc/NEWS. Patches without documentation and NEWS updates costs the committer more time and reduces the likelihood of a commit.

Even a perfect patch costs several minutes of our life time. The patch must be reviewed, applied, compiled, the entire unit test suite must pass and finally it must be committed and the issues needs to be closed, too.

Christian

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