Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes: >> Who are we worried about offending? The crowds on the Internet who never >> volunteer for anything, who never submit patches, let alone offer to do >> the unglamourous work? > > Perhaps you should look more carefully. We do have contributors who submit > patches and advice on the tracker. There isn't just the committers and the > passive masses. > Yes, in the last year in particular there has been some excellent effort of maintaining the issue tracker content. But the question still remains - who are we worried about offending?
> (oh, and following your logic, we should ignore your advice, unless you > actually > contribute to the "unglamourous work" - do you?) > >> In a meritocracy it isn't enough to be >> good at what you do, you also have to be known to be good. > > If this were the criterion then the answer would be simple: nobody seems to > knows dangerjim in the Python community. > Except, of course, the person recommending him. And it seems from the discussion that nobody is particularly bothered about finding out about him, preferring to exercise their various prejudices in preference to taking a PSF member's word that he's a potentially valuable contributor along with an offer of supervision. I didn't realize we had so much effort available that we can ignore such offers. > (to make it clear: this is not a shot intended at him, rather at your own > logic) > > To make it clear: this is not intended as a criticism of you personally, rather of those who do not seem to feel that increasing the developer community is important. Perhaps diversity is just something you write in a statement. Some of the comments in this thread have seemed positively unwelcoming, even though I doubt that was the authors' intention. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://pycon.blip.tv/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
