Re: [Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-07-28 Thread Catherine Devlin
The PyOhio contribu-palooza starts this Saturday! http://www.pyohio.org/Contribute With two talks and a two-day-four-night sprint, I'm very hopeful that it will recruit and train some new core workers. I'm preparing my portion, the teach-the-newbie (me) -to-fix-a-core-bug session, and I want to

Re: [Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-07 Thread Vincent Davis
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Scanning through open issues will also give you a general idea of what kind of functionalities are looking for improvement, or need fixing. (you can create a new issue and start tackling it yourself, too) As a wanabe

Re: [Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
Vincent Davis wrote: As a wanabe Dev I think the hardest thing is to find an open issue I can actually fix and to have a mentor to help make sure I don't miss something I did not know about. Does the easy tag help with that at all? It's intended to mark issues that aren't delving into deep

[Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-06 Thread Catherine Devlin
Hey, everybody... I'm Catherine, a database administrator who makes up excuses to write Python instead. I'm not actually here as a core developer, but as somebody who hopes to become a developer and recruit some more, which brings me to my question: Who lives close enough to Ohio to make it to

Re: [Python-Dev] audience-instructors for Teach Me Python Bugfixing needed

2010-05-06 Thread Doug Hellmann
What an excellent idea! We should have these at *every* regional conference. Doug On May 6, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Catherine Devlin wrote: Hey, everybody... I'm Catherine, a database administrator who makes up excuses to write Python instead. I'm not actually here as a core developer, but