With Barry's encouragement, and based on the summaries I prepared for the Email Wiki and discussion with Barry, I submitted a proposal to the PSF to fund me to do development work on the email 6 module. As you will read in the proposal[1], this works for me since I do contract programming work as part of my income, and with funding I can devote that portion of my time (and more, I hope) to this project.
The PSF did not fully fund the proposal[2]. However, they did provide seed funding covering the first two months, and will be helping with fundraising for the rest in the form of "fiscal sponsorship" (from what I understand we'll learn more about that at PyCon). In addition, for every four dollars raised from other sources they'll put in another dollar. So far I've done the first item on the task list in the budget projection, the review of all outstanding issues in the tracker. The results are posted[3] on my web site, which I have linked from the wiki. (I put them on my website rather than the wiki because I wrote a little Sphinx plugin to query the tracker for issue titles and status, so that links are generated automatically and the page will get updated as bugs are closed or the titles changed.) If you know of any bug reports I've missed, or disagree with my analysis of any of the bugs, please let me know. >From here the next steps are to start refactoring and adding to the tests, and to move the discussion of the new API into the territory of concrete proposals. I'll be posting about both of those as the week goes along. My thought is that all the work should be done using a DVCS, to give maximum opportunity for others to contribute as their time allows. I welcome thoughts about how best to set this up to provide maximum access for this community of interest. I'm also interested to know who will be at PyCon and interested in BOF and/or sprint activities involving the email package. --David [1] http://www.bitdance.com/test/projects/email6/psfproposal/ [2] http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2009-12-14/#funding-for-python-3-email-module [3] http://www.bitdance.com/test/projects/email6/issues/ _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
