[Python-Dev] GitHub migration planning has started

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sun Jan 10 12:59:45 EST 2016


On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 at 09:48 Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to contribute to this, even if you're not part of the core
> dev team?
>

Sure! There's going to be plenty of code to write, decisions to be made,
etc. While I will making most of the final decisions, I will be asking for
feedback from people, asking some to go off and write some code, etc.

-Brett


>
> On January 10, 2016 11:43:48 AM CST, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For those of you who have not heard, I made the decision a little over a
>> week ago to move Python's development from our home-grown workflow to one
>> hosted on GitHub (mainly for code hosting and code review; we're keeping
>> bugs.python.org for our issue tracker). The hope is that this will let
>> core developers work through patches faster so that we have a better
>> turn-around time while being at least as good as our current workflow for
>> external contributors (but I will be shocked if it isn't better). There are
>> also people involved with the migration who plan to put in the effort to
>> make sure external contributors can still submit patches without ever
>> interacting with GitHub.
>>
>> If you want to help with the transition, then feel free to join the
>> core-workflow mailing list where all the discussions on the details of the
>> migration are occurring (including the PEP I'm starting to write to outline
>> the steps we will be taking):
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow
>>
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