[Python-Dev] Helping contributors with chores (do we have to?)

[Victor Stinner]

Small enhancement: I added Python 3.5 support to blurb with the help
of Serhiy Storchaka ;-)

Victor

2017-06-25 10:33 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 21:37:46 -0700
> Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>> On 06/24/2017 09:14 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>> > Not only core developers make PRs for CPython. Since all non-trivial
>> > changes need to be mentioned in Misc/NEWS, blurb becomes a required
>> > tool for all committers.
>>
>> Well, no.  *Writing blurb-compatible files* becomes a required step for
>> all committers.  And blurb makes that easy.  But it's pretty easy to
>> write them by hand; that's why we pre-created the "next" directories,
>> and there are instructions in the dev guide.
>
> Hmm.  If it were so easy, you wouldn't have felt the need to add that
> functionality to blurb, right? :-)
>
> This is touching a more general problem, though.  Before GitHub, we
> (core developers) would take the patch submitted by a contributor, make
> whatever minor changes were needed (e.g. Misc/NEWS) and push the
> aggregate ourselves.  With GitHub, while it's possible to edit someone
> else's PR, it's frankly a PITA (I've tried to do it once, I don't want
> to try a second time unless GitHub makes it massively easier and less
> footgunning-prone). So we have to rely on contributors to make the PR
> merge-ready by themselves... which means spending some time guiding
> them through the oh-so-exciting steps necessary to add the right
> Misc/NEWS entry, or fix the occasional bit of reStructuredText
> mis-syntax.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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