2010/7/11 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>: >> In the 2009 Google Summer of Code I was the mentor for a Brazilian >> student, Guilherme Polo, who completed and extended important >> improvements to IDLE made during the previous year by David Scherer. >> Given the somewhat official nature of this work, I assumed that these >> needed improvements would make it into the standard distribution, but as >> far as I know that hasn't happened. It would seem that if even this >> "sponsored" project didn't impact the standard Python distribution, >> something is broken in the procedures, and probably what is needed is, >> as Guido says, that someone be given the authority to get improvements >> to IDLE into the standard distribution. Making a significant change to >> the update procedures is clearly needed. > > I don't think so; instead, the perception of authority needs to be > adjusted (in the specific case). Guilherme could have committed these > changes, but, for whatever reason, decided not to. Nor did his direct > mentor (i.e. you) tell him to commit the changes, and neither did I. > >> Even if this needed change is made, there is also merit to Tai's >> suggestion of creating a separate project, to encourage developers like >> him to work together to improve IDLE, without having as a first priority >> to worry about getting it into the standard distribution, but with the >> clear understanding that this is the place to go for improvements to >> migrate into the standard distribution. > > Again, Guilherme could commit his changes any time. > > Regards, > Martin
I think Martin has always supported me in some way and I really appreciate that. But, maybe because I won commit privileges solely based on GSoC work, I felt other developers wouldn't approve my commits without previous discussion and that is the major reason for not committing most of my patches. -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ 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
