Martin v. Löwis schrieb: > Nick Coghlan schrieb: >> One thing that did happen though (which the messages from Jeremy & Phil >> reminded me of) is that I got a lot of direction, advice and assistance >> from Raymond when I was doing that initial work on improving the speed >> of the decimal module - I had the time available to run the relevant >> benchmarks repeatedly and try different things out, while Raymond had >> the experience needed to suggest possible avenues for optimisation (and >> when to abandon an approach as making the code too complicated to be >> effectively maintained). >> >> I don't know whether or not there is anything specific we can do to >> encourage that kind of coaching/mentoring activity, but I know it was a >> significant factor in my become more comfortable with making contributions. > > While there was no explicit management of a mentoring process, I think > it so happened that committers always found a mentor. It so happened > that some developer activated privileges for them (either himself, or > requesting that this be done), and then certainly feels responsible > for his 'student'. This automatically establishes a mentoring > relationship.
Perhaps we should really try to make *that* notion widely known out there, opposed to others like the alleged 5:1 requirement or that it is hard to get patches into the Python core :) A sort of announcement and some text on the website would surely help... Georg _______________________________________________ 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
