[Python-Dev] Let's use the SourceForge Patch Manager

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> 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).

Will there be a list which gets the patches mailed to it
by SF ?

I'm just asking because the current setup of having the patches
available through mail really helps in discussing patch details.
 
> 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.

I'll volunteer for the Unicode side of things :-)

> 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!

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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