[python-committers] Idea: Create subteams?

[Andrew Svetlov]

Agree with Yuri. We have not big amount of non-committer contributions into
asyncio, and every non-trivial change requires very careful review.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 17:32 Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:12 AM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> [..]
> > I identified 3 obvious subteams:
>
> > * Documentation
> > * IDLE
> > * asyncio
>
> Sorry, asyncio isn't an obvious choice for me. There are not so many
> low-hanging fruits left in asyncio except improvements to its
> documentation. I'm a firm -1 to allow people to merge without Andrew's or
> my review at this point, almost no PRs are fine when they are submitted
> (including our own). There's a lot of complexity in asyncio which isn't
> immediately evident to people who are not working with its internals on a
> daily basis.
>
> Now, people who report and submit asyncio PRs seem to do that just fine
> without subteams. Although it's rare to see people contributing more than
> once, but that's not an asyncio-specific pattern, I see it in every big and
> complex project I happen to contribute to.  Even having a dedicated asyncio
> mailing list doesn't help to get people to contribute to asyncio more
> frequently.
>
> Don't get me wrong, Andrew and I would certainly welcome any help we can
> get, but I'd be against running a public experiment with asyncio to see if
> 2 of us can handle the management of the new sub-teams idea.  Unfortunately
> 2 of us just don't have capacity for that.
>
> Please pick another project for your idea. Maybe we should try it for
> documentation first, where we have a lot of core devs who can help with PR
> reviews and management of "subteams".
>
> Yury
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Thanks,
Andrew Svetlov
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