hi Brian,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Brian Curtin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@python.org">brian@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
As Jesus mentioned earlier today, it has been a while since<br>
<a href="http://blog.python.org/" target="_blank">http://blog.python.org/</a> was been updated, and even before that it<br>
wasn't updated all that often. I'd like to try and get others involved<br>
so we can get a more steady flow going and highlight more of the work<br>
everyone is doing.<br>
<br>
The blog aims to keep people up-to-date on what's going on in the<br>
development of Python without having to follow every word of this<br>
mailing list, the bug tracker, IRC, etc. There are a number of topics<br>
that I think would be great for the blog, including but not limited<br>
to:<br>
<br>
* Surveys - Raymond likes to poll people on twitter and has done a<br>
bunch of surveys over IRC, usually relating to ideas on APIs. I'd love<br>
to put some of these up on the blog and cast a wider net.<br>
* New features - Introducing a new module, such as Victor's<br>
faulthandler, makes for a great post. As we get closer to 3.3,<br>
everyone will be stuffing the commit stream with new features and<br>
introducing interesting ones on here would be great.<br>
* PEPs - As we all know, PEP discussions can sometimes result in weeks<br>
long debates with hundreds of 500 word responses. Summarizing a<br>
discussion down to a blog post would probably be helpful for a lot of<br>
people. I know I can't follow all of these PEPs all the time, but I'd<br>
like to know what's going on.<br>
* Problems you're solving - Antoine did a nice post about his changes<br>
to remove polling from a number of areas in the code and why he did<br>
them. More explanations like this would be great.<br>
<br>
We run the blog out of a Mercurial repository on BitBucket and do the<br>
writing in reStructuredText, then publish via Blogger. There's also a<br>
great team of volunteer translators that can get your post out there<br>
in 10 languages (see the blog sidebar for the full list). We can also<br>
accept guest posts with zero process: you just write and we'll handle<br>
the back-end stuff and get your work published. I don't want to make<br>
people go through all kinds of hoops if they just want to make a<br>
one-time post about something they want to share.<br>
<br>
If you have any topics - specific or general - that you'd like to see<br>
covered, respond here and we'll add them on the tracker.<br>
If you're interested in writing, contact me and I'll get you up and running<br></blockquote><div><br> </div><div><br>I think, if Python blog is regularly updated, it will be a great resource for every one :), Moreover personally I feel, if we have something like weekly (or b-weekly) interviews from core-python-developers it would be great for new comers like me,<br>
<br>Also, I would love to share helping hands with you, just guide me where should I start from :)<br><br>Regards<br>Vikash Agrawal<br></div></div><br>-- <br>sent via HTC Sensation<br><br><br>