[python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 17:36, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> Doesn't that mean that the person doing the forward port will potentially have
> to review a lot more code than the fix they specifically want to make?

Potentially, yes. I would imagine in many cases (let's not count 2.x
-> 3.x for now) the merge wouldn't be that hard, and most fixes should
be easy to recognize as applicable.

But if not, this should incentivize people to forward-port their own
changes, which is a good thing, IMO.

Cheers,

Dirkjan