On Sun, 02 May 2010 22:39:01 +1000, Yaniv Aknin <ya...@aknin.name> wrote: > >> 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? > > > The people who are potential new contributors but don't currently know > > anyone in the Python community. > > By definition these 'potential new and unknown contributors' are discrete > and probably can't be characterized as a whole. However, seeing myself > as one of the discrete elements in that group, I think it's worthwhile for me > to pipe in here and say that I won't be 'offended' or think of it as nepotism > if someone gets foo-privilege before I do because he happens to know core > developer (some other 'potential new contributer' lurking here feels > otherwise? > - speak up!). > > I don't know the community (yet) and I can't say this for sure, but my current > gut feeling about the Python community (and pretty much any OSS I can think > of) is that in the long run, I'll be judged on merit just like any other guy, > no > matter who they know.
Thank you very much for this feedback. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.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
