[Python-Dev] Interesting blog post by Ben Sussman-Collins

[Neal Norwitz]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> My colleague and SVN developer Ben Sussman-Collins occasionally blogs
> about the social side of (mostly open source) software development. He
> just posted a new one that struck a chord:
>
> http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=96
>
> The story's main moral: submit your code for review early and often;
> work in a branch if you need to, but don't hide your code from review
> in a local repository until it's "perfect".
>
> Let's all remember this and make sure not to drop "code bombs" on each
> other. :-)

Ben mentions this in the post, but it's a good reminder:  comments on
python-checkins are *not* personal.  The goal is to make the code
better and/or gain better understanding.  We all make mistakes, better
to correct them early before they become big problems..

n