On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My colleague and SVN developer Ben Sussman-Collins occasionally blogs >> about the social side of (mostly open source) software development. He >> just posted a new one that struck a chord: >> >> http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=96 >> >> The story's main moral: submit your code for review early and often; >> work in a branch if you need to, but don't hide your code from review >> in a local repository until it's "perfect". >> >> Let's all remember this and make sure not to drop "code bombs" on each >> other. :-) > > Ben mentions this in the post, but it's a good reminder: comments on > python-checkins are *not* personal. The goal is to make the code > better and/or gain better understanding. We all make mistakes, better > to correct them early before they become big problems..
And this reminder applies to reviewer *and* reviewees! (I know I've made this mistake in both roles. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
