On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 1:30:03 AM UTC-5, dieter wrote: > Experience like this (in another project) causes me to be > very reluctant to become a core contributor (in the sense > of actively fixing things in the core). You need a lot of > knowledge (coding conventions, test setup, change > workflow, ...) whichs goes far beyond the functionality of > the fix -- and you must be resilient, patient and maybe > even fighting to get the work accepted.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I hope many more will come forward and do the same. We are obviously ignoring some talented people out there, and as i stressed before, we need to prevent further hemorrhaging of this talent. I know there are tons of folks who will get involved if we can remove the onerous barriers. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
