On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:43:27 -0800 >> Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >>> >>> But I wouldn't be surprised if some people had regrets about the way >>> the community works (I can recall at least one such case) and it would >>> be useful to learn from those occasions, if they'll let us. And the >>> numbers might tell us something, too. >> >> Yes, that's the kind of things that would be good to hear about IMO. >> It's obvious that in some cases patches and reports go simply >> unanswered for years, and in these cases a first-time reporter or >> contributor won't bother again (who would?). >> But I wonder if there are other social or technical factors, such as >> the community being too intimidating or not welcoming enough. >> >> Actually, if some python-dev readers have something to say about that, >> they are welcome :) > > FWIW, Here's some feedback I got from the community awhile ago - not > all of the respondents are ex contributors, but rather this is a > general "why don't you contribute" question. I've still not had the > time to internalize it, other then to pester Brett to work on the dev > docs. > > http://jessenoller.com/2010/04/22/why-arent-you-contributing-to-python/ > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1285897 > http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/burio/why_arent_you_contributing_to_python/ > > It's worth a good read-through. I got a lot of private emails all in > the same tone. Speed of turn around, push back from entrenched > developers turning off new contributors, etc. > > Jesse >
Let me point out, in a positive light, that the feedback from the above is what triggered me to drive the PSF Sprints project (http://pythonsprints.com/) at the board/PSF level. _______________________________________________ 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