[Python-ideas] question about the Tulip effort

[Eli Bendersky]

>
> > 1. Questions and clarifications should be sent to this list
> (python-ideas),
> > correct?
>
> Yes, unless you think it's of little public value, you can always mail
> me directly (Tulip is my top priority until the PEP is accepted and
> Tulip lands in the 3.4 stdlib).
>
> > 2. Is there a list of tasks help would be needed with? Is it the the TODO
> > file in tulip's root dir?
>
> Hm, that's mostly reminders for myself, and I don't always update it.
> There are also lots of TODOs and XXXs in the source code (the XXXs
> mark things that are *definitely* in need of fixing, like missing
> docstrings; TODOs are often just for pondering). You can certainly
> read through it, and if you see a task you would like to do, ping me
> for details.
>
> Some tasks that I don't think are represented well but where I would
> love to get help:
>
> - Write a somewhat significant server app. I have a somewhat
> significant client app (crawl.py) but nothing that exercises the
> server API at all. I suspect that there are some awkward things in the
> server API that will need fixing.
>
> - Try writing a significant app for a protocol other than HTTP.
>
> - Move the StreamReader class out of http_client.py and design an API
> to make it easy to hook it up to any protocol.
>
> - Datagram support (read the section in the PEP on this topic first).
>
>
Great, I'll start looking around.


>  > 3. How/where to contribute patches?
>
> I like to get code review requests using codereview.appspot.com (send
> them to gvanrossum at gmail.com). Please use the upload.py utility to
> upload your patch, don't bother with defining a repository. If I like
> your patch I'll probably ask you to submit it yourself, I'll give you
> repo access once you've signed a PSF contributor form.
>

Is that the same contributor form I had to sign for CPython a while ago (I
have the asterisk near my name in the issue tracker)? Anyway, sending
patches through Rietveld SGTM.

Eli
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