How Python is Developed

From PyCon 2009

1. How Python is Developed Brett Cannon brett@python.org PyCon 2009
2. OMG! A bug!
3. “Who can I talk with to make sure it’s a bug?” comp.lang.python python-dev
4. “I should tell somebody about this.” http://bugs.python.org/
5. “Oh look, a bug.” new-bugs-announce python-bugs-list
6. “Look at what triggers the bug!”
7. “This should be fixed.”
8. “Here’s a patch to fix it!”
9. What a patch needs • PEP 7/8 conformance • Unit tests • Doc changes • Misc/NEWS • Misc/ACKS
10. “LGTM.”
11. Please be patient when waiting for a review! Only 26 developers from December 1 to March 12 changed more than 100 lines of code; 39 changed any code.
12. “Committed.”
13. “I have an idea!”
14. “I should bounce this idea off some people.” python-ideas comp.lang.python
15. “Look at what I made Python do!”
16. “PEP time!” http://www.python.org/dev/peps/
17. “Does that shed come in puce?” python-dev
18. “Make the shed spam-colored and we will include it.”
19. “I made Python better!”
20. “How can I join the cool crowd?”
21. Contribute on bugs.python.org .
22. Request developer privileges on the issue tracker.
23. Ask for commit privileges.
24. • http://www.python.org/dev/setup/ • http://www.python.org/dev/workflow/