On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:55:56 -0400 > Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >> Fred Drake wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> >> The two sets of repositories use different conversion tools and rules. >> >> They have nothing in common (different changeset IDs, different >> >> metadata, different branch/clone layout). >> > >> > I'd love to see a more detailed description of this, including why >> > someone new to Mercurial would choose one over the other. >> > >> > This information really belongs in www.python.org/dev/ rather than >> > only in the mailing list. >> > >> +1 >> >> As does a recent essay by Eli Bendersky, IMO. I believe it could lower >> the barriers for entry into the "non-committer" class of developer. This >> should make it easier for people to adapt Python to their own purposes >> whether or not they want to contribute to the open source code base, but >> also encourage people to investigate the compiler's innards. > > With the moratorium on language constructs and builtins (not only in > letter until 3.3, but more generally in spirit), I don't think we should > encourage it at all, for such contributions would surely be rejected. > > Rather than fancy syntax propositions or wild semantic > changes/enhancements (such as have often been proposed on > python-ideas), what we need is humbler but more useful work on stdlib > bugs and improvements, as well as documentation and tutorials. > > (what's more, those two kinds of contributions are likely to attract > two different kinds of people, which means that people whose syntax > patches get refused won't necessarily start contributing stdlib or > documentation patches...) > > Regards > > Antoine.
I completely and wholeheartedly agree with Antoine. I'm hoping the sprints thing will help with this - the stuff outside of the "deep core" needs a lot more help and TLC. jesse _______________________________________________ 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
