[Python-Dev] Docs of weak stdlib modules should encourage exploration of 3rd-party alternatives (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 05:03:10 CET 2012

Rather than indicating apathy on the party of third party developers, this might be a sign that core Python is unapproachable or not worth the effort.

For instance I have several one line patches languishing, I can't imagine how disappointing it would be to have significantly larger patches ignored, but it happens.

A one-line patch for a complex module or piece of code may require much more than looking at that single line to really review. I hope you understand that.

That said, if you find any issues in the bug tracker that in your opinion need only a few minutes of attention from a core developer, feel free to send a note to the mentorship mailing list. People sometimes come there asking for precisely this thing (help reviewing a simple patch they submitted), and usually get help quickly if their request is justified.

Eli

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