Hello! After a long time of inactivity, I hope to be back to some python hacking. Before getting into any coding, I'd like to discuss with you some conceptual and boring stuff I have in my mind. In the past I have given small contributions to the python standard distribution. Unfortunately (for myself), I slowed down until I stopped contributing, even though I have a great affect by the interpreter. Now I realize that one of the reasons I've stopped contributing is because there's a large inertia in getting stuff reviewed. The reason why this is happening seems more aparent now that I was off for a while: there's a small core of very busy developers working on core/essential/hard stuff *and* in code reviewing as well. At the same time, I've seen Guido and others bothered a few times because of the lack of man power. So the question is: how do I, a developer which feels capable of helping in python's development, can get some of the tasks which take your time out of your hands? Or even, how is it possible to improve some part of the development process by giving people like me some instructions? Also, isn't it easy to point out what's wrong in a commit from someone who is following the development process for a while than taking the time to review its code in the sourceforge patch system? My feeling is that the Python development is currently overly centralized, and that you might be suffering from that now, by being unable to handover some of your tasks to someone else. I feel that everytime I send a patch, besides being contributing, I'm also overloading you with more stuff to review and comment and etc. Perhaps the fallback costs for some wrong commit is too high now (did I heard someone mentioning subversion?)?! Could someone please discuss that issues with me, and perhaps just kick me away saying that I'm crazy? :-) -- Gustavo Niemeyer [ 2AAC 7928 0FBF 0299 5EB5 60E2 2253 B29A 6664 3A0C ]