[Python-Dev] contributors survey?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:43:27 -0800
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> But I wouldn't be surprised if some people had regrets about the way
> the community works (I can recall at least one such case) and it would
> be useful to learn from those occasions, if they'll let us. And the
> numbers might tell us something, too.

Yes, that's the kind of things that would be good to hear about IMO.
It's obvious that in some cases patches and reports go simply
unanswered for years, and in these cases a first-time reporter or
contributor won't bother again (who would?).
But I wonder if there are other social or technical factors, such as
the community being too intimidating or not welcoming enough.

Actually, if some python-dev readers have something to say about that,
they are welcome :)

> Perhaps a better way than scanning ACKS would be to collect
> contributor email addresses from the svn logs and note those that
> haven't contributed in the past 12 months.

SVN logs usually don't mention contributor emails (except for
committers). Also, it's probably more difficult to extract contributor
names from the SVN logs than from the ACKS file.

Ok, finding emails might be harder than I initially thought it to be.
I hadn't counted the number of lines in ACKS and assumed it
was much smaller than that!

Regards

Antoine.