Arc Riley wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com > <mailto:fij...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I think we need to ask first guys who spend their live maintaining > libraries instead of just proposing "let's make some poor student port > it to py3k", but I might be just wrong, I don't know. > > > I agree. Part of Summer of Code is about getting students involved so > they stick around, and heck my second SoC student is still with our > project as the #2 committer, but he's an exception. > > Also, we need the projects involved to want the tasks done by a > student. As a project maintainer I wouldn't want an intern being the > most familiar person with our Py3 migration, I'd rather students stick > with new features or optimization and coordinate the migration process > as a group-wide effort. > > I added the 2to3 improvement idea to the list, a good start :-) We need > a couple more at least. > > If a 3to2 tool (for backporting Py3 code to Py2, so projects can develop > primarily in Py3?) is something that's wanted, who would be a good > mentor for it? > We also need projects for people who may want to do some coding and then just walk away - the SoC experience might teach them that programming isn't for them ;-)
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