On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:21:00 -0700 > Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe >> <tshep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 18:55, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe >> >> <tshep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 17:51, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >>>> and I'm not sure we'd like to >> >>>> accept code from convicted fellons (though I'd consider that a gray >> >>>> area). >> >>> >> >>> This makes me curious... why would that be a problem at all (assuming >> >>> the felony is not related to the computing field)? >> >> >> >> Because the person might not be trustworthy, period. Or it might >> >> reflect badly upon Python's reputation. But yes, I could also see >> >> cases where we'd chose to trust the person anyway. This is why I said >> >> it's a gray area -- it can only be determined on a case-by-case basis. >> >> The most likely case might actually be someone like Aaron Swartz. >> > >> > Even if Aaron submits typo fixes for documentation :) >> > >> > I would think that being core developer would be the only thing that >> > would require trust. As for a random a contributor, their patches are >> > always reviewed by core developers before going in, so I don't see any >> > need for trust there. Identity is another matter of course, but no one >> > even checks if I'm the real Tshepang Lekhonkhobe. >> >> I don't think you're a core contributor, right? Even if a core >> developer reviews the code, it requires a certain level of trust, >> especially for complex patches. > > I would say trust is gained through previous patches, not through > personal knowledge of the contributor, though.
You don't have to have face-to-face meetings (I never may most Python contributors face-to-face until many years later, and some I've never met) but you do gain insight into their personality through the interaction *around* patches. To me, that counts just as much as the objective quality of their patches. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
