[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code/core Python projects - RFC

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

Well, I think Numpy is of huge importance to a major Python user segment,
the scientific community. I don't know if that makes it 'core', but I
strongly agree that it's important.
Better testing is always useful, and more "core", but IMO less important.

-T

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:38 AM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this year we have 10-12 GSoC applications that I've put in the "relevant
> to core Python development" category.  These projects, if mentors etc
> are found, are *guaranteed* a slot under the PSF GSoC umbrella.  As
> backup GSoC admin and general busybody, I've taken on the work of
> coordinating these as a special subgroup within the PSF GSoC, and I
> thought it would be good to mention them to python-dev.
>
> Note that all of them have been run by a few different committers,
> including Martin, Tarek, Benjamin, and Brett, and they've been obliging
> enough to triage a few of them.  Thanks, guys!
>
> Here's what's left after that triage.  Note that except for the four at
> the top, these have all received positive support from *someone* who is
> a committer and I don't think we need to discuss them here -- patches
> etc. can go through normal "python-dev" channels during the course of the
> summer.
>
> I am looking for feedback on the first four, though.  Can these
> reasonably be considered "core" priorites for Python?  Remember, this
> "costs" us something in the sense of preferring these over Python
> subprojects like (random example) Cython, NumPy, PySoy, Tahoe, Gajim,
> etc.
>
> ---
>
> Questionable "core":
>
> 2x "port NumPy to py3k" -- NumPy is a major Python module and porting it
>        to py3k fits with Guido's request that "more stuff get ported".
>        To be clear, I don't think anyone expects all of NumPy to get
>        ported this summer, but these students will work through issues
>        associated with porting big chunks o' code to py3k.
>
>        One medium/strong proposal, one medium/weak proposal.
>
> Comments/thoughts?
>
> 2x "improve testing tools for py3k" -- variously focus on improving test
>        coverage and testing wrappers.
>
>        One proposes to provide a nice wrapper to make nose and py.test
>        capable of running the regrtests, which (with no change to
>        regrtest) would let people run tests in parallel, distribute or
>        run tests across multiple machines (including Snakebite), tag
>        and run subsets of tests with personal and/or public tags, and
>        otherwise take advantage of many of the nice features of nose
>        and py.test.
>
>        The other proposes to measure & increase the code coverage of
>        the py3k tests in both Python and C, integrate across multiple
>        machines, and otherwise provide a nice set of integrated reports
>        that anyone can generate on their own machines.  This proposal,
>        in particular, could move smoothly towards the effort to produce
>        a "Python-wide" test suite for CPython/IronPython/PyPy/Jython.
>        (This wasn't integrated into the proposal because I only found
>        out about it after the proposals were due.)
>
>        I personally think that both testing proposals are good, and
>        they grew out of conversations I had with Brett, who thinks that
>        the general ideas are good.  So, err, I'm looking for pushback,
>        I guess ;).  I can expand on these ideas a bit if people are
>        interested.
>
>        Both proposals are medium at least, and I've personally been
>        positively impressed with the student interaction.
>
> Comments/thoughts?
>
> ---
>
> Unquestionably "core" by my criteria above:
>
> 3to2 tool -- 'nuff said.
>
> subprocess improvement -- integrating, testing, and proposing some of
>        the various subprocess improvements that have passed across this
>        list & the bug tracker
>
> IDLE/Tkinter patch integration & improvement -- deal with ~120 tracker
>        issues relating to IDLE and Tkinter.
>
> roundup VCS integration / build tools to support core development --
>        a single student proposed both of these and has received some
>        support.  See http://slexy.org/view/s2pFgWxufI for details.
>
> sphinx framework improvement -- support for per-paragraph comments and
>        user/developer interface for submitting/committing fixes
>
> 2x "keyring package" -- see
>
> http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/pycon-hallway-session-1-a-keyring-library-for-python/
> .
> The poorer one of these will probably be axed unless Tarek gives it
> strong support.
>
> --
>
> --titus
> --
> C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
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