Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brian Curtin writes: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:15, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Brian Curtin writes:   If you want to contribute to development, I think you'll know that a   link about development is relevant. For values of you in experienced programmers,

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-22 Thread Éric Araujo
Le 11/02/2012 12:00, Eli Bendersky a écrit : Well, I think the situation is pretty good now. If one goes to python.org and is interested in contributing, clicking on the Core Development link is a sensible step, right? Maybe, depending on your knowledge of jargon. How about rewording that

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-22 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 18:21, Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org wrote: Le 11/02/2012 12:00, Eli Bendersky a écrit : Well, I think the situation is pretty good now. If one goes to python.org and is interested in contributing, clicking on the Core Development link is a sensible step, right?

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brian Curtin writes: If you want to contribute to development, I think you'll know that a link about development is relevant. For values of you in experienced programmers, yes. But translators and tech writers don't consider what they do to be development.

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-22 Thread Brian Curtin
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:15, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Brian Curtin writes:   If you want to contribute to development, I think you'll know that a   link about development is relevant. For values of you in experienced programmers, yes.  But translators and tech writers

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Eli Bendersky writes: Well, I think the situation is pretty good now. I agree, but improvement is always possible. If one goes to python.org and is interested in contributing, clicking on the Core Development link is a sensible step, right? Maybe. But a lot of the Core Dev links I've

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/02/2012 03:14, Eli Bendersky wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 03:38, Jesse Nollerjnol...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to publicize it on twitter, my blog, google plus and elsewhere. help welcome. It also appears in the first paragraph of Contributing in the dev guide - which is

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-11 Thread Eli Bendersky
Eli, quite frankly no :( The stock answer put it on the main page at python.org if actually followed up in all cases would result in something unreadable, as the page would be too noisy and displayed in something like Palatino size 1 (if there is such a thing). I'm just crossing my fingers

[Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Hi all, I'd never heard of this until some Dutch geezer whose name I'm now forgotten pointed me to it. Had I known about it a couple of years ago it would have saved a lot of people a lot of grief. Please could it be given a bit of publicity. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. p.s. The Dutch

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-10 Thread Jesse Noller
I've been trying to publicize it on twitter, my blog, google plus and elsewhere. help welcome. On Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I'd never heard of this until some Dutch geezer whose name I'm now forgotten pointed me to it. Had I known about it a

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-10 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 03:38, Jesse Noller jnol...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to publicize it on twitter, my blog, google plus and elsewhere. help welcome. It also appears in the first paragraph of Contributing in the dev guide - which is pointed to by the main page at python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-10 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, do you have a concrete idea of how it can be made more prominent? Mark didn't know about it because the core-mentorship list didn't exist yet in the timeframe he's talking about :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan   |  

Re: [Python-Dev] http://pythonmentors.com/

2012-02-10 Thread Eli Bendersky
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 08:27, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, do you have a concrete idea of how it can be made more prominent? Mark didn't know about it because the core-mentorship list didn't exist yet in