-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
>Since some months, I'm trying to improve Python but it's difficult because >I'm not allowed to push patches and I have to wait for some reviews and then >for someone interrested by my patches. Sometimes I just get a good reaction >like "nice patch" and then nothing. Should I stop sending new patches and >work on another project, improve old patches and send an email everydays to >the mailing list to get some reaction? > >Barry doesn't want to release Python 3.0rc2 because of release blocker >issues. Guido asked if the mailing list has collapsed. > >I don't understand: you want help, but some of my patches are waiting since >many weeks ago... The problem is not just about me, but about anyone trying >to contribute to Python: if it's to hard to contribute, people would just >move to another more reactive project. Victor, don't despair! Your contributions are appreciated. Let me remind you though that I've been mostly unavailable for the past two weeks at a work conference. I won't have time to look at anything until Monday at the earliest. That's why I set the 3.0 schedule the way I did. One of the reasons why I'm very keen on us moving to a distributed version control system is to help break the logjam on core developers. True, your code will still not be able to land in the "official" branch without core developer intervention, but you will be able to share your code, fixes, branches with everyone in a much more live way than patches in a tracker. It will be much easier for others to merge your changes, test them, review them, etc. and it will be much easier for you to track changes in the official trunk as other code lands. In any case, I know it's frustrating not to get good timely feedback, but such is the nature of open source projects. Please be patient and don't worry. I'll look at your patches when I'm back in the real world. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkJlMoACgkQ2YZpQepbvXG0DgCePlFiKrAH/UQkQhLb8Mr7dwtd mmUAoJN2pOJN40fOQ0otMSgeVCt5sqLL =Mnta -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
