Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-08 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 at 10:11 Laxmikant Chitare wrote: > Hi Team Python, > > It is really nice, motivating and encouraging to see people contribute to > community in spite of the work load. "Thank you" is just not enough to > appreciate your efforts. I have been programming in Python for quite some

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Laxmikant Chitare wrote: > > It is really nice, motivating and encouraging to see people contribute to > community in spite of the work load. "Thank you" is just not enough to > appreciate your efforts. I have been programming in Python for quite some > time and I a

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-08 Thread Laxmikant Chitare
Hi Team Python, It is really nice, motivating and encouraging to see people contribute to community in spite of the work load. "Thank you" is just not enough to appreciate your efforts. I have been programming in Python for quite some time and I am loving it more as days pass by. I have been think

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-05 Thread Yury Selivanov
On 2015-09-05 2:23 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Awesome! We need more people with those skills! --Guido (on mobile) Great, we'll start today! Thanks, Yury ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
Awesome! We need more people with those skills! --Guido (on mobile) On Sep 5, 2015 11:07 AM, "Yury Selivanov" wrote: > On 2015-09-05 1:27 PM, David Mertz wrote: > >> I have to apologize profusely here. Just after I offered to do this (and >> work even said it was OK in principle to do it on wor

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-05 Thread Yury Selivanov
On 2015-09-05 1:27 PM, David Mertz wrote: I have to apologize profusely here. Just after I offered to do this (and work even said it was OK in principle to do it on work time), my work load went through the roof. And now it's really already later than most of it should have been done. I'd st

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-05 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
On September 5, 2015 12:27:26 PM CDT, David Mertz wrote: >I have to apologize profusely here. Just after I offered to do this >(and >work even said it was OK in principle to do it on work time), my work >load >went through the roof. And now it's really already later than most of >it >should ha

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-05 Thread David Mertz
I have to apologize profusely here. Just after I offered to do this (and work even said it was OK in principle to do it on work time), my work load went through the roof. And now it's really already later than most of it should have been done. I'd still very much like to work on this, but I wond

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-09-02 Thread Yury Selivanov
On 2015-07-06 11:38 AM, David Mertz wrote: Hi Folks, I hereby volunteer to write "What's New for Python 3.5?" if folks on python-dev are fine with me taking the job (i.e. I ran it by Travis, my boss at Continuum, and he's happy to allow me to do that work within my salaried hours... so havi

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 06, 2015, at 09:32 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >FWIW, it took me 100+ hours. Doing this right is a non-trivial undertaking >(in modern times, there are an astonishing number of changes per release). >That said, it is rewarding work that makes a difference. Indeed. During distro Python

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 7 July 2015 at 01:38, David Mertz wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I hereby volunteer to write "What's New for Python 3.5?" if folks on > python-dev are fine with me taking the job (i.e. I ran it by Travis, my boss > at Continuum, and he's happy to allow me to do that work within my salaried > hours... s

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-06 Thread Raymond Hettinger
FWIW, it took me 100+ hours. Doing this right is a non-trivial undertaking (in modern times, there are an astonishing number of changes per release). That said, it is rewarding work that makes a difference. Raymond [David Murray] I can tell you that 3.4 took me approximately 67 hours accordin

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-06 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:45:01 +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > On 05.07.15 20:52, R. David Murray wrote: > > Just so people aren't caught unawares, it is very unlikely that I will have > > time to be the final editor on "What's New for 3.5" they way I was for 3.3 > > and > > 3.4. I've tried to e

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-06 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/06/2015 08:38 AM, David Mertz wrote: I hereby volunteer to write "What's New for Python 3.5?" if folks on python-dev are fine with me taking the job (i.e. I ran it by Travis, my boss at Continuum, and he's happy to allow me to do that work within my salaried hours... so having time isn't

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-06 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:38 AM David Mertz wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I hereby volunteer to write "What's New for Python 3.5?" if folks on > python-dev are fine with me taking the job (i.e. I ran it by Travis, my > boss at Continuum, and he's happy to allow me to do that work within my > salaried hou

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-06 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
On 05.07.15 20:52, R. David Murray wrote: Just so people aren't caught unawares, it is very unlikely that I will have time to be the final editor on "What's New for 3.5" they way I was for 3.3 and 3.4. I've tried to encourage people to keep What's New up to date, but *someone* should make a fina

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-06 Thread David Mertz
Hi Folks, I hereby volunteer to write "What's New for Python 3.5?" if folks on python-dev are fine with me taking the job (i.e. I ran it by Travis, my boss at Continuum, and he's happy to allow me to do that work within my salaried hours... so having time isn't a problem). If this is OK with the

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 6 July 2015 at 12:42, David Mertz wrote: > I think I might be able to "volunteer" for the task of writing/editing the > "What's New in 3.5" docs. I saw David's comment on it today, so obviously > haven't yet had a chance to run it by my employer (Continuum Analytics), but > I have a hunch they

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-05 Thread David Mertz
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 6 July 2015 at 03:52, R. David Murray wrote: > > Just so people aren't caught unawares, it is very unlikely that I will > have > > time to be the final editor on "What's New for 3.5" they way I was for > 3.3 and > > 3.4. > > And thank you

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-05 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:06:41 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 6 July 2015 at 03:52, R. David Murray wrote: > > Just so people aren't caught unawares, it is very unlikely that I will have > > time to be the final editor on "What's New for 3.5" they way I was for 3.3 > > and > > 3.4. > > And thank

Re: [Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 6 July 2015 at 03:52, R. David Murray wrote: > Just so people aren't caught unawares, it is very unlikely that I will have > time to be the final editor on "What's New for 3.5" they way I was for 3.3 and > 3.4. And thank you again for your work on those! > I've tried to encourage people to ke

[Python-Dev] What's New editing

2015-07-05 Thread R. David Murray
Just so people aren't caught unawares, it is very unlikely that I will have time to be the final editor on "What's New for 3.5" they way I was for 3.3 and 3.4. I've tried to encourage people to keep What's New up to date, but *someone* should make a final editing pass. Ideally they'd do at least