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

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 16:01:59 CET 2011

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

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 :) FWIW, Here's some feedback I got from the community awhile ago - not all of the respondents are ex contributors, but rather this is a general "why don't you contribute" question. I've still not had the time to internalize it, other then to pester Brett to work on the dev docs. http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285897 http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/burio/whyarentyoucontributingtopython/ It's worth a good read-through. I got a lot of private emails all in the same tone. Speed of turn around, push back from entrenched developers turning off new contributors, etc. Jesse

Let me point out, in a positive light, that the feedback from the above is what triggered me to drive the PSF Sprints project (http://pythonsprints.com/) at the board/PSF level.

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