[Python-Dev] contributors survey?

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:43:27 -0800
>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> But I wouldn't be surprised if some people had regrets about the way
>>> the community works (I can recall at least one such case) and it would
>>> be useful to learn from those occasions, if they'll let us. And the
>>> numbers might tell us something, too.
>>
>> Yes, that's the kind of things that would be good to hear about IMO.
>> It's obvious that in some cases patches and reports go simply
>> unanswered for years, and in these cases a first-time reporter or
>> contributor won't bother again (who would?).
>> But I wonder if there are other social or technical factors, such as
>> the community being too intimidating or not welcoming enough.
>>
>> Actually, if some python-dev readers have something to say about that,
>> they are welcome :)
>
> FWIW, Here's some feedback I got from the community awhile ago - not
> all of the respondents are ex contributors, but rather this is a
> general "why don't you contribute" question. I've still not had the
> time to internalize it, other then to pester Brett to work on the dev
> docs.
>
> http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285897
> http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/burio/why_arent_you_contributing_to_python/
>
> It's worth a good read-through. I got a lot of private emails all in
> the same tone. Speed of turn around, push back from entrenched
> developers turning off new contributors, etc.
>
> Jesse
>

Let me point out, in a positive light, that the feedback from the
above is what triggered me to drive the PSF Sprints project
(http://pythonsprints.com/) at the board/PSF level.