On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:43:27 -0800 > Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >> But I wouldn't be surprised if some people had regrets about the way >> the community works (I can recall at least one such case) and it would >> be useful to learn from those occasions, if they'll let us. And the >> numbers might tell us something, too. > > Yes, that's the kind of things that would be good to hear about IMO. > It's obvious that in some cases patches and reports go simply > unanswered for years, and in these cases a first-time reporter or > contributor won't bother again (who would?). > But I wonder if there are other social or technical factors, such as > the community being too intimidating or not welcoming enough. > > Actually, if some python-dev readers have something to say about that, > they are welcome :)
FWIW, Here's some feedback I got from the community awhile ago - not all of the respondents are ex contributors, but rather this is a general "why don't you contribute" question. I've still not had the time to internalize it, other then to pester Brett to work on the dev docs. http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285897 http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/burio/why_arent_you_contributing_to_python/ It's worth a good read-through. I got a lot of private emails all in the same tone. Speed of turn around, push back from entrenched developers turning off new contributors, etc. 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
