On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Eli Bendersky
I've been reading PEP 3156 and looking at the reference implementation (http://code.google.com/p/tulip/). I'll be happy to contribute to the effort, and following are a couple of questions on how to do that.
And I'd be happy to have your help!
1. Questions and clarifications should be sent to this list (python-ideas), correct?
Yes, unless you think it's of little public value, you can always mail me directly (Tulip is my top priority until the PEP is accepted and Tulip lands in the 3.4 stdlib).
2. Is there a list of tasks help would be needed with? Is it the the TODO file in tulip's root dir?
Hm, that's mostly reminders for myself, and I don't always update it. There are also lots of TODOs and XXXs in the source code (the XXXs mark things that are *definitely* in need of fixing, like missing docstrings; TODOs are often just for pondering). You can certainly read through it, and if you see a task you would like to do, ping me for details. Some tasks that I don't think are represented well but where I would love to get help: - Write a somewhat significant server app. I have a somewhat significant client app (crawl.py) but nothing that exercises the server API at all. I suspect that there are some awkward things in the server API that will need fixing. - Try writing a significant app for a protocol other than HTTP. - Move the StreamReader class out of http_client.py and design an API to make it easy to hook it up to any protocol. - Datagram support (read the section in the PEP on this topic first).
3. How/where to contribute patches?
I like to get code review requests using codereview.appspot.com (send them to gvanrossum@gmail.com). Please use the upload.py utility to upload your patch, don't bother with defining a repository. If I like your patch I'll probably ask you to submit it yourself, I'll give you repo access once you've signed a PSF contributor form. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)