On 13 Jan 2014, at 13:59, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13 January 2014 23:38, Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> >> On 12 Jan 2014, at 15:47, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Working across multiple projects has highlighted for me lately how much >>> unnecessary overhead we're currently dealing with in core development, and >>> how ineffective we are at delegating responsibility for parts of the docs >>> that aren't tied directly to the standard library and interpreter >>> implementation. >>> >>> In particular, the "core reviewer" model in OpenStack makes substantially >>> more effective use of core developer time than our core committer model - >>> if I say a change looks good, it merges cleanly and passes the tests, why >>> do I need to do the last step manually? (While I don't work on OpenStack, I >>> work on QA tools for Red Hat. I'm considering deploying Zuul in particular, >>> since it's at the heart of being able to adopt a core reviewer model). >>> >>> The other part is that I've suggested we invite the PSF's Outreach & >>> Education committee to the summit. There are some things we're currently >>> trying to run entirely from within the existing core dev team (like >>> maintenance of the tutorial and the howto guides) where that may not be the >>> most sensible model. >> >> How many people are the Outreach and Education committee? We could cope with >> another 5-10 people attending. If the committee is less than 20 then we're >> probably fine inviting them as I doubt all will be able to attend. > > To be honest, I don't actually know. However, I was actually thinking > in terms of asking them to send a few interested representatives, > rather than necessarily having them all attend. > > Assuming > http://www.python.org/psf/committees/#outreach-education-committee-orec > is reasonably up to date, I expect they could come up with a few > volunteers that are going to be in Montreal on the day of the summit > and can spare the time to come chat with us about ways we could work > better together :)
That sounds fine - are you ok to issue the invite and ask them to let me know who will be attending? Michael > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
