[python-committers] Anyone up for a core dev panel discussion at EuroPython 2016 ?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 19.02.2016 17:47, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2016-02-19 17:35 GMT+01:00 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
>> No, seriously, this is great stuff normal Python users never get
>> to see and that's really a shame.
> 
> This week, I wrote an article listing my contributions during 2015 Q3:
> https://haypo.github.io/contrib-cpython-2015q3.html
> 
> On Twitter, someone told me that my article was interesting. Honestly,
> I was surprised :-) I partially wrote this article because my employer
> requires that I justify that I effectively spend my time on CPython
> and not something else.
> 
> When I started to contribute to Python, a few years ago, I recall that
> there were nice reports of the python-dev mailing list. Recently, I
> read that Brett Canon was the author. I really liked them, since I was
> unable to follow such "high traffic" mailing list (everything is
> relative ;-)).
> 
> Just to say that I agree that we suck at communicating on enhancements
> of CPython, but also issues that we are fixing every day.
> 
> For example, I do spent non negligible time on fixing our CI
> (buildbot). But I wouldn't tell my mother that I'm doing that :-D

It's not surprising that developers don't want to spend (too much)
time on marketing their activities. The python-dev summaries were
certainly a useful way to have people follow what's going on
behind the scenes:

http://legacy.python.org/dev/summary/
http://legacy.python.org/dev/summary/channews.rdf
(too bad those links don't work anymore)

The idea with the panel is to bring back some of the
attention to the things done in core development.

>> So my question to you: will some of you attend EuroPython this
>> year and would you be willing to talk on a panel ?
> 
> I plan to attend EuroPython (by the way, I have to submit a talk,
> probably something around FAT Python ;-)), why not joining the panel.

Thanks, Victor. I'll let our program workgroup know.

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