[Python-Dev] contributors survey?

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou writes:
>
>  > Following the example given in the original article, I was considering
>  > a single freeform question: "why did you stop contributing after your
>  > last patch to CPython?" (of course, that text should be decorated with
>  > a greeting and an introduction and the wording can be improved).
>
> Does anybody ever stop contributing?  Occasionally, yes, but in most
> cases it's just that this interval between explicit contributions
> (usually patches, but also reviews, PEPs, mailing list posting, bug
> reports, ...) is longer than the period since the last one. :-)
>
> How about
>
>    Hello.  We [the PSF?] would like to thank you for your past
>    patches to CPython, and take this opportunity to learn something
>    about how to improve our workflow.  We would appreciate your
>    cooperation in answering the following question.
>
>    It has been more than one year since your last patch to CPython.
>    We would like to understand why it's been so long [, and if there
>    is anything we could do to help you contribute patches more
>    frequently].
>
> The clause in brackets is outside the scope of Antoine's wording, but
> I assume that's where we're going with this.

Personally, I like this, but I would skip the PSF aspect of it, and
focus on core. The PSF exists "outside" of the domain of CPython and
should probably avoid taking too much credit or inserting itself more.
:)

jesse