[Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

[Guido van Rossum]

On Jan 3, 2008 11:40 AM, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:15:04AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> -> We're getting a fair number of doc contributions, especially since the
> -> docs were converted from Latex to ReST, and especially since the start
> -> of the GHOP project.
> ->
> -> My main gripe is with code contributions to Py3k and 2.6; Py3k is
> -> mostly done by a handful of people, and almost nobody is working much
> -> on 2.6.
>
> What needs to be done with 2.6?  I'm happy to review patches, although
> even were commit access on offer I'm too scatterbrained to do a good job
> of it.

IMO the main issue with 2.6 is not handling bugs and patches but
backporting 3.0 stuff. There's a spreadsheet somewhere that shows
there's a huge amount of work to be done:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pCKY4oaXnT81FrGo3ShGHGg (if you
can't access it, try the published version:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pCKY4oaXnT81FrGo3ShGHGg )

> Incidentally, I'm planning to set up an SVK repos containing the GHOP
> doc patches; that way they can stay sync'ed with 2.6 work.  I'd be happy
> to do the same thing with reviewed-and-probably-OK patches, although I
> don't know if repository proliferation is a generally good idea ;).

IMO patches should just be applied to the trunk ASAP.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)