[Python-Dev] Developer resources (was Re: Stability and change) (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 01:32:56 -0400

Aahz writes:

Not sure that's really the right approach. I'd rather see more effort go to persistent resources (like www.python.org/dev/; thanks Andrew!). Questions can reasonably be sent to python-dev and can feed the expansion & update of that material.

I like this idea. That could be done for both the development and maintenance branches (whatever we call them), and can be supported by volunteers on the starship. The "buildmeister" would not need to be a core developer at all, though perhaps should check the python-dev and python-checkins archives before deciding the time is right for a build.

(BTW, is the Starship membership closed now? If so, the starship home page should be updated.)

It would also be good to come up with an automated build-&-test procedure, so we can run something tindbox-style to keep a handle on state of the tree. This would be really good if we can get volunteers to provide build services on machines of different platforms.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation