[Python-Dev] Core projects for Summer of Code

[Brett Cannon]

2009/3/18 Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think we need to ask first guys who spend their live maintaining
>> libraries instead of just proposing "let's make some poor student port
>> it to py3k", but I might be just wrong, I don't know.
>
>
> I agree.  Part of Summer of Code is about getting students involved so they
> stick around, and heck my second SoC student is still with our project as
> the #2 committer, but he's an exception.
>
> Also, we need the projects involved to want the tasks done by a student.
> As a project maintainer I wouldn't want an intern being the most familiar
> person with our Py3 migration, I'd rather students stick with new features
> or optimization and coordinate the migration process as a group-wide effort.
>
> I added the 2to3 improvement idea to the list, a good start :-)  We need a
> couple more at least.
>
> If a 3to2 tool (for backporting Py3 code to Py2, so projects can develop
> primarily in Py3?)


Exactly. The semantics are cleaner in 3.x, suggesting it would be easier to
backport it to 2.x.


> is something that's wanted, who would be a good mentor for it?


Benjamin has done the most work on 2to3 recently. Thomas Wouters originally
came up with the idea for 3to2 but I suspect he doesn't want to mentor.

-Brett
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