Hello, Just a quick note, I've read http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-last/ The article is interesting in its opinion about Python in the scientific computation world. But I found the graph in the "Github" section very interesting, especially since I'm now in the position of an external contributor.
To make a long story short, contributing to Logilab's projets from the outside is not easy as in could be in these days of github / bitbucket and all. IMO, if the goal is to gain external contributors to projects such as pylint (+ astng + lgc) or Cubicweb, then some effort should be put in setting an official bitbucket repository from which forking a branch would be easy (it's already not very complicated to fork from hg.logilab.org) and more important, making a pull request when a new feature is implemented would be a breeze. The recent discussions on this list make it quite obvious that, although the current process may work fine for insiders, it is very painful for outsiders. It is fine with me if tickets are not tracked on bitbucket. I can live with code reviews happening on logilab.org too. But please, make it a breeze for us to publish our changes on bitbucket and notify you of these. When contributing on spare time to an free software project, having to spend precious time adapting to the idiosyncrasies of the organization in charge for managing the releases of the software (which is definitely work for which we are all grateful) rather than hacking can be a deterrent, especially if: * the process is not visible (I know about http://www.logilab.org/card/contributing, but the link on the home page is not very visible, and not displayed at all if I am logged in on the site) * the process adds steps which could be left out (and indeed are left out in other projects), namely the required use of mq. I'd like to hear some feedback on this from Logilab folks, of course, and also from other external contributors. Regards, -- Alexandre _______________________________________________ Python-Projects mailing list Python-Projects@lists.logilab.org http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo/python-projects
