Georg Brandl wrote: > Steve Holden schrieb: > >> I think it was courageous of Brett to tackle this issue head-on as he >> did, and of Victor to respond so positively to the various comments that >> have been made on this thread. It would be a pity to lose a developer >> who so obviously has Python's best interests at heart. > > Full ACK. > >> As someone with a strong interest in Python's development, but whose >> interests lie outside direct development at the code face I would like >> to see some way where committed non-committers like Victor could be >> mentored through the initial stages of development, to the point where >> they can be trusted to make commits that don't need reversion. > > I don't think we have the manpower to do that beyond the already > established "I have to sign off all your commits" procedure. Of course, > this is time consuming, so maybe for Victor it is just the matter of > no developer currently finding the time to do it. > >> In the old days this would have happened by a process known in the >> British training world as "sitting with Nellie" - doing the work next >> to, and directly supervised by, someone who had been doing it a long >> time and who knew all the wrinkles of the job. Quite how to achieve a >> similar effect in today's distributed development environment is less >> obvious. > > IRC gets relatively close to sitting next to someone :) > >> Could we talk about this at PyCon (as well as continuing this thread to >> some sort of conclusion)? While the sprints are great for those who are >> already involved some activity specifically targeted at new developers >> would be a welcome addition, and might even help recruit them. > > Topic for the language summit? > +1, but I won't be at the summit because I'll be teaching tutorials that day.
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