On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Eric Woods <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Grig, > > Glad to hear you're interested in contributing. Yes, this community is very > open to outside contributors. The right way to contribute, as you said, is > to open a ticket on JIRA and upload relevant patches. A committer will > apply, review, and commit your patch. With enough contributions you can > eventually become a committer. > > Returning the tuple as you described is a viable option. I can also see > returning a dictionary mapping the values (my preference). While there are > multiple solutions, I think it comes down to preference. Paul or Jerry or > some of the main python contributors would be better suited to comment as I > mostly work on the Java version. > > Eric W. >
Thanks for the quick reply, Eric. I'll go ahead and open a JIRA issue then and attach a patch. I like the dictionary variant better myself, so I'll do that. Grig
