On Mar 25, 2015, at 01:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>(1) Suppose you change a small function whose formatting is not PEP 8
>conformant (or otherwise so ugly you can't help fixing it -- of
>course, check "blame" first, if Barry committed those lines, have
>your eyes checked instead
Barry Warsaw writes:
> Keep feature and bug branches small if possible, and concise, such
> that they only implement the feature your working on or fix the
> reported bug. A little bit of extraneous stuff might be okay if it
> improves readability, but don't go overboard.
I'd like to gloss t
On Mar 24, 2015, at 02:38 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
>I haven’t really worked on an open source project before.
You're fitting right in though! :)
>It wouldn’t make sense to come up with an idea, write some code, submit it
>and have it rejected because it’s not OK with the project owners and doesn
On 2015-03-23 10:38 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
The question is, who do I ask for confirmation that the idea is solid and will
be merged assuming all requirements are met for code
quality/testing/documentation?
For core stuff you particularly want Barry's blessing, for Hyperkitty it's
Aurelian,
Thanks Terri,
>>Unfortunately, it is true that the lack of process has led people to put a
>>lot of work into stuff that never got merged.
I’m mainly just trying to avoid this - writing stuff that doesn’t get merged.
I figure step one is to get a quick nod from one of the architects/project
l
On 2015-03-23 8:38 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:
I haven’t really worked on an open source project before.
It wouldn’t make sense to come up with an idea, write some code, submit it and
have it rejected because it’s not OK with the project owners and doesn’t fit
with project goals.
So at what poin
Hi Andrew,
For starters, make sure you check
https://pythonhosted.org/mailman/src/mailman/docs/STYLEGUIDE.html and
https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html.
Cheers,
Ana
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Andrew Stuart <
andrew.stu...@supercoders.com.au> wrote:
> I haven’t
I haven’t really worked on an open source project before.
It wouldn’t make sense to come up with an idea, write some code, submit it and
have it rejected because it’s not OK with the project owners and doesn’t fit
with project goals.
So at what point do I know that if I write some code that the