[Python-Dev] contributors survey? (original) (raw)

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 03:31:48 CET 2011

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Antoine Pitrou writes:

 > Following the example given in the original article, I was considering  > a single freeform question: "why did you stop contributing after your  > last patch to CPython?" (of course, that text should be decorated with  > a greeting and an introduction and the wording can be improved). Does anybody ever stop contributing?  Occasionally, yes, but in most cases it's just that this interval between explicit contributions (usually patches, but also reviews, PEPs, mailing list posting, bug reports, ...) is longer than the period since the last one. :-) How about  Hello.  We [the PSF?] would like to thank you for your past  patches to CPython, and take this opportunity to learn something  about how to improve our workflow.  We would appreciate your  cooperation in answering the following question.  It has been more than one year since your last patch to CPython.  We would like to understand why it's been so long [, and if there  is anything we could do to help you contribute patches more  frequently]. The clause in brackets is outside the scope of Antoine's wording, but I assume that's where we're going with this.

Personally, I like this, but I would skip the PSF aspect of it, and focus on core. The PSF exists "outside" of the domain of CPython and should probably avoid taking too much credit or inserting itself more. :)

jesse

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