[Python-Dev] My thinking about the development process

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat Dec 06 2014 at 10:30:54 AM Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 December 2014 at 00:11, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > On Fri Dec 05 2014 at 8:31:27 PM R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> That's probably the biggest issue with *anyone* contributing to tracker
> >> maintenance, and if we could solve that, I think we could get more
> >> people interested in helping maintain it.  We need the equivalent of
> >> dev-in-a-box for setting up for testing proposed changes to
> >> bugs.python.org, but including some standard way to get it deployed so
> >> others can look at a live system running the change in order to review
> >> the patch.
> >
> >
> > Maybe it's just me and all the Docker/Rocket hoopla that's occurred over
> the
> > past week, but this just screams "container" to me which would make
> getting
> > a test instance set up dead simple.
>
> It's not just you (and Graham Dumpleton has even been working on
> reference images for Apache/mod_wsgi hosting of Python web services:
> http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/12/hosting-python-wsgi-
> applications-using.html)
>
> You still end up with Vagrant as a required element for Windows and
> Mac OS X, but that's pretty much a given for a lot of web service
> development these days.
>

If we need a testbed then we could try it out with a devinabox and see how
it works with new contributors at PyCon. Would be nice to just have Clang,
all the extras for the stdlib, etc. already pulled together for people to
work from.
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