[Python-Dev] Interesting blog post by Ben Sussman-Collins (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 05:49:11 CEST 2008


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

My colleague and SVN developer Ben Sussman-Collins occasionally blogs about the social side of (mostly open source) software development. He just posted a new one that struck a chord:

http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=96 The story's main moral: submit your code for review early and often; work in a branch if you need to, but don't hide your code from review in a local repository until it's "perfect". Let's all remember this and make sure not to drop "code bombs" on each other. :-)

Ben mentions this in the post, but it's a good reminder: comments on python-checkins are not personal. The goal is to make the code better and/or gain better understanding. We all make mistakes, better to correct them early before they become big problems..

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