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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 2 13:07:17 CET 2011

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:43:27 -0800 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

But I wouldn't be surprised if some people had regrets about the way the community works (I can recall at least one such case) and it would be useful to learn from those occasions, if they'll let us. And the numbers might tell us something, too.

Yes, that's the kind of things that would be good to hear about IMO. It's obvious that in some cases patches and reports go simply unanswered for years, and in these cases a first-time reporter or contributor won't bother again (who would?). But I wonder if there are other social or technical factors, such as the community being too intimidating or not welcoming enough.

Actually, if some python-dev readers have something to say about that, they are welcome :)

Perhaps a better way than scanning ACKS would be to collect contributor email addresses from the svn logs and note those that haven't contributed in the past 12 months.

SVN logs usually don't mention contributor emails (except for committers). Also, it's probably more difficult to extract contributor names from the SVN logs than from the ACKS file.

Ok, finding emails might be harder than I initially thought it to be. I hadn't counted the number of lines in ACKS and assumed it was much smaller than that!

Regards

Antoine.

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