On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > On 26/04/2010 11:58, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> >> [snip...] >> >> I'm not claiming that the current balance is right. > > Hmm... the core development team (those who make commits once a month or > more frequently) is very small, the number of people doing bug triaging is > currently good but also small. We have patches and issues in the tracker > that may have responses but will never get properly looked at because no-one > on the core team is interested or has the mental bandwidth, we have possibly > hundreds of modules in the standard library without a maintainer. > > I think it is very much in the interest of Python to evolve our processes in > order to encourage more core-developers. Evolving means experimenting *and* > being willing to change. It is certainly less *effort* to accept the status > quo, but with several more committed and enthusiastic (and good) core > developers there is an awful lot (more) we could achieve. > [snip]
Just to add fuel to the fire w.r.t this discussion about process-improvements, lowering friction, etc. I'd like to point out (unintentionally tooting my own horn) a discussion I started up on this exact topic last week: http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/burio/why_arent_you_contributing_to_python/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285897 I'm going to avoid summarizing the comments - ignoring my original post, I can honestly say I received an alarming amount of feedback some of which was private, but most of which is sitting there for us to possible consume and act on. jesse _______________________________________________ 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
