On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:03:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to propose, although I certainly don't have time to implement, > a program by which Python-using projects could contribute buildslaves which > would run their projects' tests with the latest Python trunk.
An excellent idea! > It's a constant source of anxiety to me > that I might miss some key feature addition to Python which breaks > or distorts some key bit of Twisted functionality (as the new-style > exceptions, or recent ImportWarning almost did) because I don't have > enough time to follow all the threads here. So don't read threads -- just try the alphas and betas! The "What's New" documents have a 'porting' section that flags changes that may require application changes, but items are added only if I think of them or if someone suggests them (e.g. generator.gi_frame can be None in Python 2.5 -- I would never have thought people would have code that broke because of this). > While the new python.org is very nice, I do note that there's no "blogs" > entry > on the front page, something which has become a fixture on almost every > other website I visit regularly. A 'Blogs' link could be trivially added by linking to planet.python.org, though the blogs collected there are not in any way 'the Python developers', but a jumble of developers and users. I don't think enough core developers have weblogs (or write about Python) to make a 'python-dev only' planet very useful. > mainly a listing of releases and events. There's no forum for getting the > community _excited_ about new features (especially new features which are > explicitly enabled by potential breakages), and selling them on the cool > uses. I think the venue for this would be weblog entries or news sites such as oreillynet.com. I do worry that we don't have enough people writing articles and things, but have no idea how to encourage people to write more. --amk _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
