[Python-Dev] Our failure at handling GSoC students (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 7 11:12:19 CEST 2013

Le Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:09:16 +0200, martin at v.loewis.de a écrit :

> Robin has produced many patches that seem to reach the stated goal > (refactor C extension modules to take advantage of the latest PEPs > about module initialization and extension types definition). > Unfortunately, tackling both goals at the same time produces big > patches with a lot of churn; and it is also not obvious the PEP 384 > refactoring is useful for the stdlib (while the PEP 3121 refactoring > definitely is). Choice of supporting PEP 384 was deliberate. It will change all types into heap types, which is useful for multiple-interpreter support and GC.

If I'm not mistaken, static C types shouln't benefit much from GC, since they only reference C functions. Also, PyType_FromSpec() makes reference counting delicate when subclasses are allowed.

> What didn't produce an alarm during Robin's work is that GSoC work > is done in private.

It wasn't really done in private. Robin posted to python-dev, anybody who would have been interested could have joined discussions.

I'm sorry if I misremembered how things happened. However, it's clear that the produced patches (including their number) cause problems for reviewers, and very few of them have been integrated.

Regards

Antoine.

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