[pydotorg-www] project plan

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 21:45:29 CEST 2010


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:26 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> As a piece of anecdotal evidence - I speak to people *daily*, in which
>> the conversation goes like this:
>>
>> Them: "Man, I found a bug in the docs/python lib/site"
>> Me: "Please file a bug, better yet, file a patch! Especially the docs,
>> they're easy to fix!"
>> Them: <rummaging>
>> Them: I have to do *what* to change a line in the docs?! Check out
>> code? Do a diff? Screw that!! I have other things to do that *pay me*.
>> Me: Please file a bug at least!
>> Them: Why bother? It's going to take forever for it to get fixed. You
>> deal with it.
>
> Can you please give three or four examples of the changes they would
> like to see made? Please be as specific as possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>

Rather then trying to randomly summarize discussion spanning about two
years mixed with gut feelings, I took the discussion public:

http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285897

jesse


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