Jason McCampbell wrote: > We are very interested in seeing the community make it through the > transition and move forward as well. Thoughts on what is needed to > help spur the process? How do we start to gather that community > together? Is there interest in something like a Birds of a Feather > meeting at PyConn to get interested parties together?
A BoF at PyCon is a great idea and I'll try to set that up (currently the Open Space section of the PyCon site is missing; I have emailed the organizers about this). A sprint is another idea. Are there people that would consider going to a sprint at PyCon US 2013? I would have to change my travel plans to make it, but I probably can do that. I don't know about John, however. Until then, we can engage in further discussion here and just get started on taking some of the smaller steps. For example, a good initial goal is to come together to work through and review some of the bug fixes John is proposing, towards getting them (and the other items already in the code review system) committed. While it may eventually happen, I think starting out by trying to rewrite large parts of PySide in Python is probably the wrong approach. At least for myself, I find it easier to get up to speed working on smaller things first. Of course others here may be further ahead than I on the learning curve and more comfortable w/ thinking about the rewrite, which is fine. In general terms, making the transition is going to take a return of people that are in some way paid to work on PySide. This may be stating the obvious, but I think most successful open source projects have some money behind them. For PySide, that money just went away, which is really the root of the problem. I say this mainly because we'll each need to figure out how to allocate resources at our companies, if not already done. - Stephan _______________________________________________ PySide mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside
