[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Sep 23 08:42:36 CEST 2009

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 23:20, David Lyon <david.lyon at preisshare.net> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:39:04 -0700, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

I don't think anyone on python-dev thought that it was exclusively Tarek's idea or necessarily even mostly his. Actually, he originally argued against it, but that is irrelevant. I'm happy that he's come around and embraced it. Perhaps a bit too much could be my issue.

If you want explicit credit, you can co-author a PEP or get thanked in a checkin as you mentioned. Good idea. How can I get check-in privileges on distutils ? What is the process?

Contribute patches on the Python issue tracker for six months to a year (depends on how much you contribute) and be generally liked by other committers. Distutils is not separate from Python itself.

But notice I said being thanked in a checkin, not making a checkin yourself.

But honestly, from my observations of open source, ideas are not what get you noticed, it's producing something tangible like code. Sure.. you're 100% right. So I need to be able to work on code and be able to check it in. I would love that. How do I get that?

You are conflating contributing code and checking it in. You can do the former without the latter.

Plus ideas and such pull from so many people on mailing lists you can claim you came up with the initial idea, but I am sure a ton of people provided feedback which makes ownership of any idea practically moot. Claiming ownership? No No. Lets not go there. A worklist and checkin rights would completely suffice.

Talk to Tarek or look at bugs.python.org for a worklist; checkin rights come MUCH later.

-Brett

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