[Python-Dev] Moving bugs and patches through the pipeline more quickly

[Trent Mick]

[Guido van Rossum wrote]
> I would certainly like to see more applications from people interested
> in getting developer status, even if it means I'll have to do
> semi-formal "interviews" or reference checks myself.  How can we
> encourage the good developers that exist to help?
> 

Perhaps many just don't know how to "join the club". If I had not been
working with David and Mark I would not have picked up on the development
system very easily.

I don't read any of the intro documentation so that may have improved in the
past couple of years but an indication that it has not is that:
    (1) The "for developers" section on http://www.python.org/ is kind of
        buried and weeny (and outdated: "including the Python 2.1 release
        schedule"); and
    (2) Andrew's "Becoming a Python Developer" is hard to find:
        http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/python-dev.html

Trent

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Trent Mick
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