I'd like to propose Terry Reedy as a new comitter.
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Terry's been around long enough that I don't think he'll need much (if any) mentoring, but I'm certainly willing to provide any that is needed.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:09:43AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
I'd like to propose Terry Reedy as a new comitter.
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
+1 on this proposal.
Terry has also been helpful with providing review comments on documentation patches and I understand, he might be interested in working on them too.
-- Senthil
Q: What lies on the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A: A nervous wreck.
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:09:43 +1000, Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to propose Terry Reedy as a new comitter.
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Terry's been around long enough that I don't think he'll need much (if any) mentoring, but I'm certainly willing to provide any that is needed.
+1
I'm guessing he'll have some questions about the commit process (everyone does) and perhaps the development environment/tools. I'm sure the #python-dev regulars would be glad to help out with those questions as well, if he visits there.
-- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 20:09, Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to propose Terry Reedy as a new comitter.
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Terry's been around long enough that I don't think he'll need much (if any) mentoring, but I'm certainly willing to provide any that is needed.
Cheers, Nick.
+1
He has been active for quite a while, contributes quality work on the tracker, and of course the recent IDLE stuff.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to propose Terry Reedy as a new comitter.
Definitely +1.
Mark
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Has he actually contributed code to Python in all this time?
Regards, Martin
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:25 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" martin@v.loewis.de wrote:
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Has he actually contributed code to Python in all this time?
That I've seen myself? No (NEWS doesn't show any specific patch attributions, but he is listed in ACKS. If I've missed anything, Terry will hopefully let me know).
My suggestion was more a matter of someone I trust to do a good job of reviewing and selecting for inclusion improvements to IDLE to provide KBK with more support than the existing comitters are able to provide. I realise it isn't the way we normally do things, but in this specific case I think it is worth a try.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:15:22 +1000, "Nick Coghlan" ncoghlan@gmail.com said:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:25 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" martin@v.loewis.de wrote:
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Has he actually contributed code to Python in all this time?
That I've seen myself? No (NEWS doesn't show any specific patch attributions, but he is listed in ACKS. If I've missed anything, Terry will hopefully let me know).
My suggestion was more a matter of someone I trust to do a good job of reviewing and selecting for inclusion improvements to IDLE to provide KBK with more support than the existing comitters are able to provide. I realise it isn't the way we normally do things, but in this specific case I think it is worth a try.
Terry's an unusual case. Although I'm a still a bit tied up atm, I took the time to look around a bit and found that he's been contributing strongly to Python for some time. We haven't crossed paths because I don't hang around the lists and he doesn't submit patches.
His modus operandi is to identify a bug, often by picking it up on python-list, and putting it on the tracker. He then is able to convince someone to present a patch, and get a different person to commit it. He doesn't usually make a comment on the patch itself.
I think what he is doing shows a rather unique management talent. I suspect he might actually get less done if he was processing the patches himself, with associated testing and backporting!
He's made the comment a couple of times recently that he doesn't have a development environment and can't make patches. That's unusual. However, since IDLE is pure Python, the necessary development environment is minimal, I'd be happy to help him get set up. I'm pretty sure he has pretty much everything he needs already.
Some of the patches submitted to IDLE need a fair amount of polishing. Tal Einat's, for example, usually need work and testing. I'd expect that Terry would scrutinize them carefully, and not just check them in.
+1
-- KBK
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 17:46, Kurt B. Kaiser kbk@shore.net wrote:
He's made the comment a couple of times recently that he doesn't have a development environment and can't make patches. That's unusual. However, since IDLE is pure Python, the necessary development environment is minimal, I'd be happy to help him get set up. I'm pretty sure he has pretty much everything he needs already.
Terry,
You might be interested in this doc I just wrote up for the PSF sprint group: http://docs.pythonsprints.com/core_development/beginners.html. It could use a more accurate/friendly compilation setup for Mac/Linux (I've done it in the past, I just have no idea what I did), but a few interested beginners have looked it over and said it was helpful.
Although a Windows development environment can be had with free (as in beer) tools, I can ping our contact at Microsoft for MSDN subscriptions as needed.
Brian
Le dimanche 18 juillet 2010 à 10:25 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Has he actually contributed code to Python in all this time?
I would say that it's sufficient if he has been contributing documentation. Which, given his overall involvment, he probably has done, but Georg probably knows the answer better than I do.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to propose Terry Reedy as a new comitter.
+1
In fact, I was surprised to learn that Terry was not a committer.
Terry, can you email Martin, Georg, or I your SSH key to get commit privileges? And just so you know, if you want privileges within the next week, don't send it to me. =)
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:09, Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to propose Terry Reedy as a new comitter.
He has been contributing to Python via the tracker, c.l.p, python-dev and python-ideas for years and has recently requested commit privileges in order to work on IDLE. I think we should give them to him :)
Terry's been around long enough that I don't think he'll need much (if any) mentoring, but I'm certainly willing to provide any that is needed.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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