On Jan 31, 2008 1:50 AM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > | I also agree with Nick as to what the purpose of assignments is. > | To indicate that you are working on a specific issue, a message > | saying so is enough (which could also include estimated completion > | dates, which a mere self-assignment can't). > > So, in the concrete case of http://bugs.python.org/issue1976 , patch > available, what the next step would be?. Must I contact Greg (previous > bsddb maintainer, with python commit access) to review, apply patch > (more coming, so no hurry) and tracker update?.
Yes, that's the typical approach. After a while, if your patches are generally good, Greg will trust you and stop reviewing your code in detail; eventually he will recommend you be granted commit privileges. > Should I maintain bsddb tracking outside python one, to reduce your burden?. No. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
