On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:05 AM Carol Willing < willi...@willingconsulting.com> wrote:
> I would like to add a "Communications Quick Start" section to the > beginning of the Python Developer's Guide. > > Productive communication between each other will always be critical to > future development of CPython and maintaining releases, infrastructure, > documentation, and more. > > Unproductive communication saps energy of contributors, reduces > engagement in the project, and limits creativity and fulfillment in > contributing. As a contributor who finds great value in the power and > zen of Python, I want to foster more effective and productive > communication. I've been thinking about ways to do this since the PyCon > sprints. New developers would benefit from understanding how to interact > with the community and its norms. Existing contributors would hopefully > benefit from less time reexplaining community communication norms. > > The Communications Quick Start section would be brief and practical much > like the Quick Start section for downloading and testing the source > code. Placing the Communications Quick Start section before the existing > Quick Start section would emphasize the importance that productive > communications has on CPython development. > Sounds great to me! Social norms are just as important to get to speed on as technical requirements when contributing to an open source community, so this seems like a worthy project. > > Thanks, > Carol > > P.S. Thank you to all that devote time and energy to the development of > CPython. I have posted this to the python-dev mailing list for feedback > due to the recent discussions. Nick and Brett, please feel free to move > this to python-ideas if you feel that would be a better place to discuss > this addition to the devguide. > Nope, here is fine. This isn't a new idea and it affects people on this list more directly than the python-ideas folks.
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