[Patches] Let's use the SourceForge Patch Manager

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:49:11 -0500


It's official: I've changed the patch submission guidelines
(http://www.python.org/patches/) to point to the patch manager at
SourceForge.  We are no longer bound by CNRI's legal department, so
the requirement for disclaimers or wet signatures is gone.

We'll have to see how it works in practice.  I've set the address
where new patches are mailed to patches@python.org; this should send
notifications to the patches list.  We could change this to python-dev
perhaps, so we can retire the patches address completely (giving it an
auto-respond pointing to the SF patch manager, as barry suggested).

There are several tasks to be assigned now: we need a triage person
who should go through the list of new patches regularly to assign them
to developers; we need developers who are willing to have patches
assigned to them.

We also need a consensus process to decide which patches will be
allowed through.  I'm hoping to experiment with SF in the coming days
to come up with something.

Finally, we still need to do something about the existing backlog of
patches.  The PythonLabs team will try to do something reasonable
here.

This is not the end -- it's the beginning!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)