Re: [Twisted-Python] Interesting plot on new author contributions post-Github for several Python packages

2013-08-27 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:14 PM, wrote: > On 09:54 am, _...@lvh.io wrote: > >> IIUC, Tom does most of his contributing through Github. That probably >> means >> that it's a well-supported process that has most of the kinks ironed out: >> after all, if Tom hasn't caught them, I would guess a new c

Re: [Twisted-Python] Interesting plot on new author contributions post-Github for several Python packages

2013-08-27 Thread exarkun
On 09:54 am, _...@lvh.io wrote: IIUC, Tom does most of his contributing through Github. That probably means that it's a well-supported process that has most of the kinks ironed out: after all, if Tom hasn't caught them, I would guess a new contributor probably wouldn't either :-) Or it means

Re: [Twisted-Python] Interesting plot on new author contributions post-Github for several Python packages

2013-08-27 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
IIUC, Tom does most of his contributing through Github. That probably means that it's a well-supported process that has most of the kinks ironed out: after all, if Tom hasn't caught them, I would guess a new contributor probably wouldn't either :-) cheers lvh __

Re: [Twisted-Python] Interesting plot on new author contributions post-Github for several Python packages

2013-08-26 Thread Richard Wall
On 26/08/2013, Terry Jones wrote: > This doesn't prove anything, but I think the first plot at > http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-last/ is quite > provocative. Terry, I don't think the problem is "too few contributors". A big problem is that there are too few reviewers

[Twisted-Python] Interesting plot on new author contributions post-Github for several Python packages

2013-08-26 Thread Terry Jones
This doesn't prove anything, but I think the first plot at http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/09/20/why-python-is-the-last/ is quite provocative. Semi-related: I made a tiny optimization to jQuery a couple of months ago as a completely unknown first-time contributor. The time from doing the git cl