Contributing patches (was Re: urllib and proxy)

[Brad Clements]

I think the Python keepers are swamped. I've had a patch pending for a
little over a month, made 3 rounds of changes as requested but now it's
stalled.

There are a lot more patches older than mine, so I'll just wait. Don't get
discouraged if your patch sits for a while.


"Michael Hudson" <mwh at python.net> wrote in message
news:un0xwxob7.fsf at python.net...
> Andy Gimblett <gimbo at ftech.net> writes:
>
> > Earlier on today I posted to this list a modified urlopen() which
> > supports proxy specification.  How do I go about suggesting this as a
> > modification to the standard python library?
> >
> > I've seen these:
> >     http://www.python.org/download/cvs.html
> >     http://www.python.org/patches/
> >
> > and they seem to suggest that I can just use my existing SourceForge
> > account and submit a patch to the patch manager, and I presume then
> > someone examines it, decides if it's a good thing or not, and checks
> > it in or rejects it?
>
> Yes, more or less.  It may take a while to get noticed, I'm afraid.
> There's also the quite likely step of being asked to modify your
> patches in some way before they go in.  There can be quite some
> to-and-fro-ing on the tracker.
>
> > Is this how it works?
>
> More or less.
>
> > Just thought I'd ask here before blundering in.
>
> Blunder away!
>
> Cheers,
> M.
>
> --
>   Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
>                                                     -- Simeon Strunsky




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