Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-11-13 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bazaar. Take a look at the developers' pages on python.org, they mention that a BZR checkout is available. I know that it works (though the initial checkout is glacially slow) but I don't know what official support it has or

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-11-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:01 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bazaar. Take a look at the developers' pages on python.org, they mention that a BZR checkout is available. I know that

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-11-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Eric Smith wrote: Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2008, Victor Stinner wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-11-02 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:04 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +, Barry Warsaw wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-11-02 Thread Alex Martelli
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... A dvcs means that people can publish their branches in a wide variety of ways. Trusted developers can push their branches to code.python.org. Non-core developers can use one of the free public dvcs branch hosting

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-11-01 Thread Georg Brandl
Tarek Ziadé schrieb: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about having two level of devs ? + core developers + standard library developers [cut] So I'd suggest thinking about developer responsibilities more in terms of areas of expertise rather

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-31 Thread Nick Coghlan
Paul Moore: 3. There's nothing obvious I can do to move an issue forward. Sure, I can make a comment, but that's about it. I'd like something that stood a bit more chance of getting noticed (like a status change, or maybe a list of people who think this is good to apply, which I can add

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-31 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about having two level of devs ? + core developers + standard library developers [cut] So I'd suggest thinking about developer responsibilities more in terms of areas of expertise rather than levels of

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-31 Thread Victor Stinner
I have a similar list that I have been thinking about proposing. I did a blog post about it at http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-are-typical-steps-issue-goes.html and received positive feedback: * triage * verify bug * test needed * needs patch * patch review * commit review *

[Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
-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.

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Victor Stinner
Let me remind you though that I've been mostly unavailable for the past two weeks at a work conference. Cool, you're back :-) But my email was not against you. That's why I set the 3.0 schedule the way I did. Personnaly, I don't want to get python 3.0 final with some broken modules or some

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Victor Stinner wrote: 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. Yeah, exactly :-) Does anyone already maintain a distributed tree? Mercurial, GIT, anything else?

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2008, Victor Stinner wrote: 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. Yeah, exactly :-) Does anyone already maintain a distributed tree? Mercurial,

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
Barry Warsaw wrote: or even decided that we're moving to one. Brett as the head of the infrastructure committee will have more to say about that. While it is indeed the infrastructure committee's call (since they'll shoulder the bulk of the effort in organising further investigation into the

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Smith
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2008, Victor Stinner wrote: 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. Yeah, exactly :-) Does anyone already maintain a distributed tree? Mercurial, GIT,

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +, Barry Warsaw wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2008-10-30 16:04 A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +, Barry Warsaw wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Fred Drake
On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: SVN supports path-based authorization. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html This has worked well for us with contractors and partners, and isn't problematic or tedious to

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Steve Holden
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: 2008-10-30 16:04 A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +, Barry Warsaw wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Calvin Spealman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 30, 2008, at 01:02 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: If Python would be more reactive, more developer will be attracted. The communication is very important in an open source

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Moore
2008/10/30 A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +, Barry Warsaw wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Raghuram Devarakonda
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a quick experiment, checking for trivial documentation patches I could review, and some things became obvious: 1. There is no way of telling which issues have a patch. There is a patch keyword that is usually

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see how a DVCS will fix anything. The bottleneck is in assessing patches for inclusion in the master tree; not enough people are doing that. We'd just end up with lots of proposed branches waiting to be merged,

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Jesse Noller
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Tarek Ziadé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see how a DVCS will fix anything. The bottleneck is in assessing patches for inclusion in the master tree; not enough people are doing that.

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:14, Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: On Thursday 30 October 2008, Victor Stinner wrote: 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. Yeah,

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 05:50, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 30, 2008, at 01:02 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: [SNIP] If Python would be more reactive, more developer will be attracted. The communication is very important in an open

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Question - is there anything Roundup can do to help triage? Extra status or keyword values (has patch, There is patch keyword already, and a public query Patches (as well as My Patches) ready to go, ...)? We could give more people the right to set the resolution to Accepted. This is a matter

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
What about having two level of devs ? + core developers + standard library developers We effectively have that already. Many of the committers will only ever commit to a single module (+docs and tests), as they volunteered to maintain that very module (e.g. Lars Gustäbel for the tarfile

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Interestingly enough, I consider myself in the standard library developers RE: the multiprocessing package. I just thought that's how things broke down unofficially. It's actually fairly official (see my other message) - you know who you are. It has been working that way fine for the last few

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:55:38PM +, Paul Moore wrote: 2. Some patches marked as documentation are doc fixes, others seem to be issues where it has been decided that the behaviour is correct as is, but needs to be documented. Fair enough, but it's much harder to assess the latter, and

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Georg Brandl
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis schrieb: 2008-10-30 16:04 A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +, Barry Warsaw wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:17:02 -0400, A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] On some of my issues (esp. ones relating to curses and mailbox.py), I feel paralyzed because problems are occurring on platforms I don't have access to (e.g. FreeBSD). The buildbots will report problems, but then

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 22:17, A.M. Kuchling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On some of my issues (esp. ones relating to curses and mailbox.py), I feel paralyzed because problems are occurring on platforms I don't have access to (e.g. FreeBSD). The buildbots will report problems, but then you have

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
On some of my issues (esp. ones relating to curses and mailbox.py), I feel paralyzed because problems are occurring on platforms I don't have access to (e.g. FreeBSD). The buildbots will report problems, but then you have to debug them by committing changes, triggering a build, and observing

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
By the way, it seems that this python-checkins mailing list did not archive the recent commits: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-October/date.html#end I miss them... Can someone fix it? Which ones are you missing specifically? Regards, Martin

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, it seems that this python-checkins mailing list did not archive the recent commits: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-October/date.html#end I miss them... Can someone fix it? Which ones

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Moore
2008/10/30 Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question - is there anything Roundup can do to help triage? Extra status or keyword values (has patch, There is patch keyword already, and a public query Patches (as well as My Patches) Sorry, I checked the keywords but missed it. ready to go,

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I haven't seen any of the ones today. OK, I've respooled them. Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe:

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread David Stanek
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Tarek Ziadé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about having two level of devs ? + core developers + standard library developers I was also thinking about two levels of developers, but structured a little differently. We have the same core developers with

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Victor Stinner
Le Friday 31 October 2008 00:34:32 Paul Moore, vous avez écrit : Agreed. I was thinking vaguely in terms of a type of voting - rather than a status or resolution, it might be more like the nosy list - a list of people who have said they think the patch is OK. The more people on the list, the

Re: [Python-Dev] My patches

2008-10-30 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 17:27, Victor Stinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Friday 31 October 2008 00:34:32 Paul Moore, vous avez écrit : Agreed. I was thinking vaguely in terms of a type of voting - rather than a status or resolution, it might be more like the nosy list - a list of people who