On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 23:20, David Lyon <david.l...@preisshare.net> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:39:04 -0700, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> I don't think anyone on python-dev thought that it was exclusively > Tarek's >> idea or necessarily even mostly his. > > Actually, he originally argued against it, but that is irrelevant. > > I'm happy that he's come around and embraced it. Perhaps a bit too > much could be my issue. > >> If you want explicit credit, you can co-author a PEP or get thanked in >> a checkin as you mentioned. > > Good idea. > > How can I get check-in privileges on distutils ? What is the process? >
Contribute patches on the Python issue tracker for six months to a year (depends on how much you contribute) and be generally liked by other committers. Distutils is not separate from Python itself. But notice I said being thanked in a checkin, not making a checkin yourself. >> But honestly, from my observations of open >> source, ideas are not what get you noticed, it's producing something >> tangible like code. > > Sure.. you're 100% right. So I need to be able to work on code and > be able to check it in. I would love that. How do I get that? > You are conflating contributing code and checking it in. You can do the former without the latter. >> Plus ideas and such pull from so many people on >> mailing lists you can claim you came up with the initial idea, but I >> am sure a ton of people provided feedback which makes ownership of any >> idea practically moot. > > Claiming ownership? No No. Lets not go there. > > A worklist and checkin rights would completely suffice. Talk to Tarek or look at bugs.python.org for a worklist; checkin rights come MUCH later. -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