[Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

[Joseph Armbruster]

Titus,

Having a "core mentor" would be great but do they really have time for
that?  I've been lucky at finding people in #python / #python-dev) that can
answer development inquiries (or at least verify something is or is not a
bug).

With respects to the bug tracker, when I select Search and Python 2.6, I
retrieved 208 open bugs.  At a quick glance, I found two that were windows,
but not tagged appropriately.  If it's worthwhile, I can spend some time
this evening browsing the list of current 2.6 bugs to see if there are any
duplicates, collisions, etc.

Joseph Armbruster


On Jan 3, 2008 2:53 PM, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:49:27PM -0500, Fred Drake wrote:
> -> On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> -> > My main gripe is with code contributions to Py3k and 2.6; Py3k is
> -> > mostly done by a handful of people, and almost nobody is working much
> -> > on 2.6.
> ->
> -> For those of us still using Python 2.4 and earlier, it's hard to be
> -> motivated to worry about Python 3.0, no matter how wonderful it
> -> looks.  (It doesn't help that my own available time appears to
> -> decrease daily with the kids and all.)
> ->
> -> Python 2.6 seems to be entirely targeted at people who really want to
> -> be on Python 3, but have code that will need to be ported.  I
> -> certainly don't view it as interesting in it's own right.
>
> 3k and 26 are, however, the only place where we can propose new features
> -- which makes it the place for cleanup and additional testing, as well
> as backwards-incompatible bug fixes...
>
> --titus
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