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’t
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 this
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 :-).
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
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
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,
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
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
