[Idle-dev] /me waves

Todd Rovito rovitotv at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 16:06:00 CET 2013


Katie,
  I don't think Terry was being a jerk maybe a bit of a smart butt
which I find humorous at times.  Of course all of this is subjective
but I don't think Terry meant to be a jerk.  Please feel free to
contribute!!!!  We would very much like your input on what you think
is broken with IDLE and try to learn from your educational experience
at PyCon.  Over the last few days we have had some good discussions on
the IDLE development process over on python-dev email list.  In
addition Terry and I put together a PEP a few weeks ago to try and
speed up IDLE development (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0434/).
Python has an excellent developers guide
(http://docs.python.org/devguide/) to get started.  The Python
development community is very supportive with a Python mentorship
email list (http://pythonmentors.com/) that is very helpful.  I hope
you will contribute, thanks!

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Katie Cunningham
<katie.fulton at gmail.com> wrote:
> It pointed to this list, telling me to join up. Here's the text in full:
>
> Too bad people exaggerate like hell -- especially in blog posts ;-).
>
> I use IDLE almost daily and it works for me, especially with some of
> the more recent fixes. I have worked on IDLE issues on and off for
> over a year. But I have no idea what *you* think is 'broken as hell'.
>
> Given your experience teaching with IDLE, I would be very interested
> in knowing what you think are the top 3 or so outstanding issues. As
> well as here, you could also post to the idle-dev list,
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev, which is mirrored as
> gmane.org newsgroup gmane.comp.python.idle.
>
> You did not specify which Python version you used, but since 3.3.0
> there have been about 30 patches pushed.  I hope to see than many
> again in not too many months. You are welcome to join us to help make
> that happen.
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:36 AM, phil jones <interstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, I'd say that's definitely not acceptable in this community.
>>
>> Was it related to this list?
>>
>> phil
>>
>> On 21 March 2013 11:34, Katie Cunningham <katie.fulton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I recently taught a class on Raspberry Pis at PyCon, with IDLE as our
>>> IDE. After two days of being immersed in the 2.7 IDLE, I decided that
>>> I'd like to join up with the efforts to improve IDLE for earlier
>>> versions.
>>>
>>> Then I got a jerk comment on my blog post about the class.
>>>
>>> Is that the sort of tone I can expect in this group? Because I'd love
>>> to help, but I have zero patience for dealing with that sort of
>>> attitude.
>>>
>>> Katie Cunningham
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