On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:08:28PM -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:49, C. Titus Brown <c...@msu.edu> wrote: > >>Michael said: > >> Armin said: > >> > That, and a group of > >> >people, dedicated to standard library refactoring. ??The majority of > >> >libraries in the standard library are small and easy to understand, I'm > >> >sure they are perfectly suited for students on projects like GSOC or > >> >GHOP to work on. ??They could even be used as some sort of "playground" > >> >for new Python developers. > >> > >> It would be a great project for GHOP *if* we have some experienced > >> developers, like yourself, dedicated to working out what the things that > >> need fixing are. > > > > Testing and doc updates worked reasonably well within GHOP last time, > > and surprisingly little in the way of "experienced developers" were > > needed. ??Faced with the responsibility of coming up with dozens of tasks > > on short notice, I picked a dozen stdlib modules and said > > > > ??test this > > ??integrate doug hellmann's documentation > > ??run through the existing examples and write more > > > > ...and voila, it happened and attracted positive notice from the BDFL, > > which is saying something. > > > > We can also run figleaf or coverage.py across the standard library and > see which modules have horrible test coverage.
Yes, and I expect to integrate the GSoC work on C code coverage, too, along with multi-platform build results. (Titus's Motto: "coercing other people into building my own testing infrastructure from scratch since 2006".) > > By far the most important part of that process was not my role in > > putting the tasks up, but Georg's role in reviewing the patches and > > committing them in a timely manner. ??I can't speak for how much time he > > spent doing that, however, and I certainly don't expect that level of > > effort from HIM this time; perhaps with Mercurial we can get > > non-committers to act as first-pass filters to reduce the strain on > > Georg or whoever steps into his shoes. [0] > > Hey, I helped a lot last time (and plan to do so again). As for the > Mercurial thing, it might not happen by December, so don't rely on > that (although we always have the mirrors so we can instruct the > students on how to use those). Yes, I remember -- no denigration intended, just that Georg devoted an absolutely insane amount of time to it ;) > > Perhaps this time we can focus on py3k stuff with GHOP; that'd be great, > > and a real community boost, IMO. > > One possibility is to simply only care about the test and doc changes for > py3k. OK, sounds good. --t -- C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
