I can't help noticing that IDLE has a history of people forking it in order to get development work done faster (ie. Idlefork, VIDLE etc.)
So it seems that to ramp up progress we may need our own space. (Eg.a wiki, a mercurial (or git) code repository, a bug tracker). Ideally, perhaps there could be a continuity with those other projects - are the people behind Idlefork and VIDLE reading this list? I know that those projects had specific goals, but I wonder whether there isn't a role for a standard Idle-fork project kept somewhere like Github or Butbucket which everyone who's interested in further development of Idle could work against. I know there'd still be an issue of getting this back into the main Python tree, but if it took off (and IDLE development was seen to have more direction and be moving faster) then there'd be more of an incentive for the rest of the Python development community to support that too. phil > > I would like to make my suggestions more concrete: > * easy access to idle-dev and/or description on the IDLE homepage > * a wiki for IDLE development > * a wiki for using IDLE > * a bug-tracker aside from Python bug-tracker > * a feature-tracker > * all this accessible from the homepage > * an invitation to contribute on the IDLE startup console or at least the > about window and installer > > =Phelix= _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
