On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:26 -0700, rantingrick wrote: > On Apr 13, 10:01 pm, Ryan Kelly <r...@rfk.id.au> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 19:10 -0700, rantingrick wrote: > > > On Apr 13, 8:29 pm, Ryan Kelly <r...@rfk.id.au> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:39 -0700, rantingrick wrote: > [...] > > > Funny you should bring that up. The folks on python-dev are currently > > making a substantial push to increase involvement in python core > > development through the "Python Mentors" program. > > > > Site here: > > [...] > > > So anyone following along this thread, if you're interested in making a > > genuine contribution to python as a language, this is a great time and > > place to start. > > That was a very helpful post Ian, thank you! > > However i have a sneaking suspicion that if i join this group i will > be denied as was the case with other python groups. However the > question remains. Why do we need yet another group? Why can we not use > the comp.lang.python that everyone knows already. Since this is a > group created for noobs, how do you expect them to find out about it? > I have been hanging around for over four years and i did not know > until now. Go figure. The first place people are going to go for > online help is > comp.lang.X for whatever language they are learning. > > And who pissed in Guido's punch bowl anyway? Why is he such an elitist > now? Why can he not come over once and a while and rub shoulders with > the little people? He does not have to hang out every day, just drop > in once a week or month at least. > > I guess i am just old fashioned but i though "benevolent" was a > *positive* moniker. We need to know what kind of leader we are dealing > with here. We deserve that much. And if he is really "benevolent" then > *I* will apologize to both him and the community at whole. Until then > i wait... > > >
Nobody has to do anything. This is an open source project. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
