26 Feb
2009
26 Feb
'09
7:39 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg.net@gmail.com> wrote:
Neil,
Thanks for speaking up! I think there are *many* people in your situation, including myself - I too am mostly a silent watcher of SciPy and I would be much more likely to contribute if the things you list were a part of the Scipy development culture:
* Tests * Code review * Documentation * Good tools and workflow.
I think it is an unproven myth that these things are "barriers" for people who want to write code. In most cases that I have seen, these things *encourage* new people to contribute to a project and greatly improve the quality of the code being written by newbies and veteran's alike.
Yep, I count myself in that group too. Ondrej