Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-25 Thread mbp
I think the key thing is to have a consistent, simple, story for basic > contributions. >> > > Very good tl;dr :) > thanks. > > I have been following the way mercurial integrates patches and I'm quite > impressed with the simplicity. We could get started with such a process in > no time. > > h

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-24 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
Hi, On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:59:25AM +0200, afayolle wrote: > re: mq is dead, great. The fine manual at > http://www.logilab.org/card/contributing needs updating since it's mq > all over the place, and forking the patch repository from bitbucket. I updated the fine manual. The death of mq has n

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-24 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le 22/09/2012 02:14, mbp a écrit : I really appreciate getting quite timely reviews, and getting my patches merged to trunk fairly quickly. That's at least as important as the mechanics and you're getting it more right than many projects do. I do agree it's fairly hard to know how to contribute

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-24 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:50:31AM +0100, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On 21 September 2012 21:36, Nicolas Chauvat > wrote: > > - Send your pull requests to python-projects@lists.logilab.org > > Immediate thought: I see a 'pull request' as what you create on > bitbucket or github, and as far as I kno

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-23 Thread afayolle
On 21/09/2012 22:36, Nicolas Chauvat wrote: > I tried to fix this by adding a big "How to contribute" section to > http://www.logilab.org/project/pylint that reads: > > """ > How to contribute > > - Fork this http://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint > > - Send your pull requests to python-projects@lists

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-23 Thread Sylvain Thénault
Hi Peter, On 22 septembre 19:00, Peter Hammond wrote: > If I may add another data point to this thread; about 6 months ago I > submitted a patch to the mailing list, following what I understood > to be the process in place at the time, documented on the web site. > I heard nothing back from the li

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-22 Thread Peter Hammond
On 21/09/12 09:00, afayolle wrote: 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, esp

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-21 Thread mbp
I really appreciate getting quite timely reviews, and getting my patches merged to trunk fairly quickly. That's at least as important as the mechanics and you're getting it more right than many projects do. I do agree it's fairly hard to know how to contribute changes. For instance, within one r

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-21 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 21 September 2012 21:36, Nicolas Chauvat wrote: > - Send your pull requests to python-projects@lists.logilab.org Immediate thought: I see a 'pull request' as what you create on bitbucket or github, and as far as I know, neither let you specify a destination email. You might want to reword it,

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-21 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
Hi, On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:09:48AM +0100, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > I don't think the mechanism necessarily has to be pull requests, but I > do think there should be simple instructions for new contributors. For > example, I made a minor contribution to logilab-astng a few months > ago. Here's t

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-21 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:58:35 +0100, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On 21 September 2012 11:26, Adrien Di Mascio > wrote: > > There is an explicit ticket for pylint : > > > > https://www.logilab.org/ticket/103676 > > Another thing I recall the rant pointing out: being confronted with a > security

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-21 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 21 September 2012 11:26, Adrien Di Mascio wrote: > There is an explicit ticket for pylint : > > https://www.logilab.org/ticket/103676 Another thing I recall the rant pointing out: being confronted with a security warning by my browser is not encouraging. I understand that a self-signed certi

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-21 Thread Adrien Di Mascio
Alexandre, Thomas, On 21/09/2012 12:09, Thomas Kluyver wrote: On 21 September 2012 09:00, afayolle wrote: But I found the graph in the "Github" section very interesting, especially since I'm now in the position of an external contributor. It's not obvious to a newcomer how to contribute. Th

Re: [Python-projects] gaining contributors by easing contribution

2012-09-21 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 21 September 2012 09:00, afayolle wrote: > But I found the graph in the "Github" section very > interesting, especially since I'm now in the position of an external > contributor. To add another datapoint to this: IPython also moved to Github in Autumn 2010, and here's the number of contributo