[Python-Dev] Helping contributors with chores (do we have to?) (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Sun Jun 25 14:01:08 EDT 2017

On Jun 25, 2017 10:27, "Larry Hastings" <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

On 06/25/2017 10:02 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

My dudes, in a previous life I helped invent distributed VCS, but I still get confused by fiddly git BS just like everyone else.

Really? I thought Bitkeeper was out before the monotone project even started--and TeamWare had monotone beat by most of a decade. Not to downplay your achievements, but I don't think you "helped invent DVCS". Or did you work on Bitkeeper / TeamWare?

If your response to the previous message is to send an email to all of python-dev nitpicking credentials, then I think you missed the point...

(There are many projects that attempted to somehow combine the terms "distributed" and "VCS", but nowadays the overwhelmingly dominant use of that term is to refer to system designs in the monotone/git/hg lineage. Perhaps I could have phrased it better; feel free to pretend I wrote a several paragraph history tracing which systems influenced which instead. I don't think any of this affects the actual point, which is that you can be arbitrarily familiar with how a software system works and still be lost and confused on a regular basis, so people should pay attention and try to avoid making comments that imply this indicates some personal deficit in the asker.)

((Maybe I should clarify that the reason I'm being cranky about this isn't really on my or Antoine's behalf, but on behalf of anyone lurking and thinking "oh, python-dev says I suck, I guess I'm not cut out to be a python contributor".))

(((Though also I would genuinely appreciate it if anyone could explain how to make GitHub do the thing I couldn't figure out. Probably it's something silly and obvious...)))

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