On Jan 3, 2008 5:24 PM, Titus Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:24:16PM -0500, Joseph Armbruster wrote: > -> Having a "core mentor" would be great but do they really have time for > -> that? I've been lucky at finding people in #python / #python-dev) that can > -> answer development inquiries (or at least verify something is or is not a > -> bug). > > Again, IMO as someone on the lunatic fringe of core development (i.e. > I'm a happy spectator, but I'm too busy to actually get much done): > > Mentoring coders may not be a traditional route for hard-core OSS > developers, but it sure can be effective, as I've found with GHOP. > > For example, many core Python developers can save an outsider hours of > effort by simply and quickly outlining the issues involved in a > particular patch or coding effort. Having actual committers involved is > especially good, because they can evaluate whether or not a patch is > likely to be accepted, potentially cutting out more hours of effort; and > they can directly commit patches, leading to the very important > gratification of an actual commit. >
I know I am happy to do stuff that way when I have time. I know I am just currently drowning under work for the first half of 2008 (PyCon, my own Py3K stuff, and thesis). > >From another angle, there are a lot of "easy" fixes/patches/updates to > be done to Python, but I'll be damned if I can figure out which ones are > easy meat, or complex, or likely to touch a nerve. Having someone > experienced to quickly give an opinion is invaluable. (I'm an > overconfident loudmouth, so I don't mind posting to this list, but I > think python-dev is pretty intimidating for people new to the hurly > burly of OSS development.) > I hope that when it comes time to change the issue tracker schema we can have a reasonable difficulty rating. That should also help for Python bug days since we can say "look at easy bugs if you don't really know C stuff, look at medium if you know C, and tackle hard if you want to dive into the nitty-gritty". > As I've said in other responses in this thread, I'm not sure how to make > it happen, but I'm leaning towards asking the active GHOP mentors to try > to extend the GHOP mentoring effort into a general python-love effort. > We've got a good group of experienced people, and it's been a pretty > friendly list IMO. Could work. Don't know if another list is really needed; couldn't python-dev handle general questions? But then again, that is what the tracker is for. -Brett _______________________________________________ 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
