[Python-Dev] Contributing to Python

[Guido van Rossum]

On Jan 5, 2008 2:36 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Mike Klaas wrote:
> > Question: should patches include edits to whatsnew.rst, or is the
> > committer responsible for adding a note?
>
> A patch should contain edits for Misc/NEWS. Patches without
> documentation and NEWS updates costs the committer more time and reduces
> the likelihood of a commit.
>
> Even a perfect patch costs several minutes of our life time. The patch
> must be reviewed, applied, compiled, the entire unit test suite must
> pass and finally it must be committed and the issues needs to be closed,
> too.

Several minutes?! The average "perfect" patch costs me more like
between half an hour and an hour.

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