[Python-Dev] Devguide - Add Communications Quick Start Section

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:05 AM Carol Willing <
willingc at willingconsulting.com> wrote:

> I would like to add a "Communications Quick Start" section to the
> beginning of the Python Developer's Guide.
>
> Productive communication between each other will always be critical to
> future development of CPython and maintaining releases, infrastructure,
> documentation, and more.
>
> Unproductive communication saps energy of contributors, reduces
> engagement in the project, and limits creativity and fulfillment in
> contributing. As a contributor who finds great value in the power and
> zen of Python, I want to foster more effective and productive
> communication. I've been thinking about ways to do this since the PyCon
> sprints. New developers would benefit from understanding how to interact
> with the community and its norms. Existing contributors would hopefully
> benefit from less time reexplaining community communication norms.
>
> The Communications Quick Start section would be brief and practical much
> like the Quick Start section for downloading and testing the source
> code. Placing the Communications Quick Start section before the existing
> Quick Start section would emphasize the importance that productive
> communications has on CPython development.
>

Sounds great to me! Social norms are just as important to get to speed on
as technical requirements when contributing to an open source community, so
this seems like a worthy project.


>
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
> P.S. Thank you to all that devote time and energy to the development of
> CPython. I have posted this to the python-dev mailing list for feedback
> due to the recent discussions. Nick and Brett, please feel free to move
> this to python-ideas if you feel that would be a better place to discuss
> this addition to the devguide.
>

Nope, here is fine. This isn't a new idea and it affects people on this
list more directly than the python-ideas folks.
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