Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 2:36 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A patch should contain edits for Misc/NEWS. Patches without >> documentation and NEWS updates costs the committer more time >> and reduces the likelihood of a commit. >> >> Even a perfect patch costs several minutes of our life time. >> The patch must be reviewed, applied, compiled, the entire unit >> test suite must pass and finally it must be committed and the >> issues needs to be closed, too. > > Several minutes?! The average "perfect" patch costs me more like > between half an hour and an hour. >
QOTW. I think this excerpt should show up in the new developer area. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com