[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-12-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 10/16/20 3:29 PM, Tal Einat wrote: (Context: Continuing to prepare for the core dev sprint next week. Since the sprint is near, *I'd greatly appreciate any quick comments, feedback and ideas!*) Following up my collection of past beginning contributor experiences, I've collected these expe

[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-11-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> My suggestion: create the developers by creating group(s) of > mentors Do you know about https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/core-mentorship.python.org/ and if you do, why isn't that what you suggest? ___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@

[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-11-28 Thread mikecmcleod
I was impressed by the good ideas put forward, however, some what not full solutions. My position: I have free time now and I want to contribute to open source/freeware. But I don’t have great software in depth experience, however, I’m willing to learn. I was think of contributing to Python but

[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-11-25 Thread Inada Naoki
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 7:31 AM Tal Einat wrote: > > > 4. Encourage core devs to dedicate some of their time to working through > issues/PRs which are "ignored" or "stalled". This would require first > generating reliable lists of issues/PRs in such states. This could be in > various forms, suc

[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-11-24 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi Tal, Thanks for driving such research, it's really interesting. Sadly, I'm not surprised by the results, since I'm already aware of these issues. IMHO the most promising way to get more review is to create groups where developers work on the same topic and review each other. Also, mentoring i

[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-10-19 Thread Brett Cannon
On Mon., Oct. 19, 2020, 12:33 Tal Einat, wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 9:24 PM Brett Cannon wrote: > >> I think the other way to help is to really lean into automation so >> reviewing is even lighterweight than it is now. Now this can be as simple >> as to remind people when they need to rege

[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-10-19 Thread Tal Einat
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 9:24 PM Brett Cannon wrote: > I think the other way to help is to really lean into automation so > reviewing is even lighterweight than it is now. Now this can be as simple > as to remind people when they need to regenerate a file like 'configure' > via a status check, sim

[Python-Dev] Re: Ideas for improving the contribution experience

2020-10-19 Thread Brett Cannon
I think the other way to help is to really lean into automation so reviewing is even lighterweight than it is now. Now this can be as simple as to remind people when they need to regenerate a file like 'configure' via a status check, simply telling people when their PR failed a status check, or go