[python-committers] Tweaks to the Motivations & Affiliations page

[Victor Stinner]

I added myself to mention that my employer Red Hat gives me time to
work on CPython.

Victor

2016-04-24 6:49 GMT+02:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just pushed an update to the Motivations & Affiliations page in the
> Developer Guide: https://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/9a9f32fcb794
>
> That's mainly based on a recent conversation with Brett, where he pointed
> out:
>
> - not everyone is going to have a concise personal bio handy, but might
> still be happy to provide relevant employer info
> - I'd never explicitly posted here to say the page was no longer
> experimental
>
> The update aims to address both of those observations.
>
> For the first one, I changed the wording of both the overall page and the
> guidelines for making new entries to say that "I work for <company> in
> <country/continent>" is still useful information to share if folks are
> comfortable doing so.
>
> So, if you work for a CPython redistributor, or a large corporate or
> institutional user of CPython, and are willing to share that info, I
> encourage you to clone the devguide repo and update the revised page.
>
> The reason for that is that professional affiliations give both the PSF and
> other organisations with a vested interest in CPython's future a better
> sense of:
>
> - the diversity of use cases encountered directly by current core developers
> - the diversity of funding supporting the availability of current core
> developers (as even when employers aren't funding contributions directly,
> it's our paid work and other sources of income that provide us with the free
> time needed for volunteer work like contributing to CPython ourselves, as
> well as mentoring other contributors)
>
> The request for regional information primarily relates to the "diversity of
> use cases" representation question - the world's a complex place, and
> there's no substitute for actually living and working in a region when it
> comes to understanding the needs and interests of that region.
>
> For the second one, while I do still consider this page part of an
> experiment, the page itself isn't likely to go away at this point. Instead,
> I consider the experiment to be a larger one around open source supply chain
> management and what happens if you take sustaining engineering information
> for a project that could (at least in theory) be obtained by mining publicly
> available information, and instead ask contributors if they're willing to
> explicitly volunteer that data in a central location.
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>
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