Hello Philipp, On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:41 +0100, Philipp Konrad wrote: > Hello, > > my name is Philipp Konrad, I am a computer science student, a young Python > programmer and researcher from Vienna, Austria.
welcome! > My developer experience started around two years ago in Java, but half year > ago I was introduced to the Python world. > I want to contribute to the py or py.test project and can assign one > working day per week. Generally, I never have contributed > to an open source project, so I would need some help for my first steps. sure. "pytest" fits better than "py" to contribute to, i think. > - 1. Where is a good point to start? Is there a good site with first > steps, a manual or something similiar? This depends on your prior experience. To begin with, i assume your have walked through http://pytest.org including some of the examples. A few answers would help to better understand where you are starting from:: - Do you have experience in some form of automated testing? Have you played with nose, unittest? Played with pytest itself? - are you familiar with mercurial or git? Bitbucket.org? - Are you familiar with Python2 versus Python3 differences? - have written docutils/RestructuredText? - ever written a parser for configuration files? - written a distributed application? > - 2. Do you have special coding / testing guidelines/ 'code of conduct' > additional to PEP8? Apart from PEP8 not much apart from general good practise like e. g. not using any global state, writing a test for each feature added/bug fixed along with the actual change. Usually changes are developed in bitbucket clones and then you open a pull request. > - 3. In which domain do you need new people? > - 3.1 Code new features > - 3.2 Documentation > - 3.3 Write unit and integration tests > - 3.4 Translation > - 3.5 Community work All of these domains make some sense. You should probably try to tackled an issue listed in http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issues - this will require reading up and understanding how pytest internally works. One bigger area would be to a) develop a pytest plugin for testing command line application b) rewrite pytest's own tests to use the plugin for a) i have a starting point including some specs and ideas. Other areas include for example writing a http server that allows to search/manage the many examples currently in sections of the rest-documents in doc/en/example/*. > - 4. Is there an organizational structure or hierachy that I should > bear in mind? Rather flat. It's probably best if you establish an IRC presence at irc.freenode.net . Apart from me (hpk42) there usually are "ronny" and "flub" who have contributed a lot of code already. Others have helped in various ways and may also be able to answer questions. best, holger _______________________________________________ py-dev mailing list py-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/py-dev
