hi Brian, On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote:
> As Jesus mentioned earlier today, it has been a while since > http://blog.python.org/ was been updated, and even before that it > wasn't updated all that often. I'd like to try and get others involved > so we can get a more steady flow going and highlight more of the work > everyone is doing. > > The blog aims to keep people up-to-date on what's going on in the > development of Python without having to follow every word of this > mailing list, the bug tracker, IRC, etc. There are a number of topics > that I think would be great for the blog, including but not limited > to: > > * Surveys - Raymond likes to poll people on twitter and has done a > bunch of surveys over IRC, usually relating to ideas on APIs. I'd love > to put some of these up on the blog and cast a wider net. > * New features - Introducing a new module, such as Victor's > faulthandler, makes for a great post. As we get closer to 3.3, > everyone will be stuffing the commit stream with new features and > introducing interesting ones on here would be great. > * PEPs - As we all know, PEP discussions can sometimes result in weeks > long debates with hundreds of 500 word responses. Summarizing a > discussion down to a blog post would probably be helpful for a lot of > people. I know I can't follow all of these PEPs all the time, but I'd > like to know what's going on. > * Problems you're solving - Antoine did a nice post about his changes > to remove polling from a number of areas in the code and why he did > them. More explanations like this would be great. > > We run the blog out of a Mercurial repository on BitBucket and do the > writing in reStructuredText, then publish via Blogger. There's also a > great team of volunteer translators that can get your post out there > in 10 languages (see the blog sidebar for the full list). We can also > accept guest posts with zero process: you just write and we'll handle > the back-end stuff and get your work published. I don't want to make > people go through all kinds of hoops if they just want to make a > one-time post about something they want to share. > > If you have any topics - specific or general - that you'd like to see > covered, respond here and we'll add them on the tracker. > If you're interested in writing, contact me and I'll get you up and running > I think, if Python blog is regularly updated, it will be a great resource for every one :), Moreover personally I feel, if we have something like weekly (or b-weekly) interviews from core-python-developers it would be great for new comers like me, Also, I would love to share helping hands with you, just guide me where should I start from :) Regards Vikash Agrawal -- sent via HTC Sensation
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