Finding your groove: Contributing to CPython and beyond

PyCon 2015 Talk - Contributing to CPython

Transcript

1. Finding your Groove Contributing to CPython Carol Willing @willingcarol
2. Groove An infectious feeling of rightness in the rhythm, of being perfectly centered.
3. Commit
4. Jump into it
5. Find your rhythm
6. Improvise
7. Finding your groove Commit Jump into it Find your rhythm Improvise
8. Commit
9. Step into your greatness. Don't be afraid... No one else could do what you do. — Keb Mo'
10. Commit to others I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet. — George Benson
11. Commit to yourself
12. Jump into it
13. Method Python Developer's Guide
14. Gather your gear Editor - your choice Operating system - Linux, OS X, Windows Command line - basics Version control - basics of Mercurial (hg) and git
15. Check out sheet music hg clone https://hg.python.org/cpython git clone https://github.com/python/cpython CPython official repo CPython semi official, read-only GitHub mirror Transpose Mercurial and Git
16. A little theory... source code directory Docs Tests Operating system Standard library
17. Listen My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener. — Pat Metheny
18. Create a playlist pyvideo.org
19. Join a band... Core Mentorship
20. ...or several combos #python-dev Mailing lists python-ideas, python-docs, python-new-bugs-announce Welcoming spaces OpenHatch, PyLadies, user groups Sprints and pairing #positive-python
21. Find your rhythm
22. Wrong and strong Loud and proud Along the way, mistakes WILL be made. Not all things tried will work out. But that impulse, the impulse to TRY THINGS, is perhaps the most attractive -- and sometimes the most underutilized. — Pat Metheny
23. Selecting a solo
24. Docs Sphinx $cd Docs $make html reStructured Text (rst) basics Find an issue Read a doc; offer a helpful change Localize a doc
25. Testing Run tests on your system Find a testing issue Improve testing fu Keep Buildbots green
26. Issues Follow along new issues and python-dev Look at infrastructure projects Ask on core mentorship Consider reviewing a patch
27. Onboarding and beyond Inspire Equip Listen Encourage
28. The most amazing new feature... Research issue tracker, mail archives, PEPs Review other people's patches Be cordial PEP 478 Release schedule for Python 3.5
29. Improvise
30. people
31. people
32. people
33. I have won several prizes as the world's slowest alto player as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness. — Paul Desmond
34. Find your Python groove? Try a sprint Learn, build, and share Embrace some Gypsy Jazz Thank you Django lover, Adrian Holovaty, for PyCon 2014 Poster Session encouragement
35. PyLadies' playing it forward The Jazzy Groove Guide to CPython Contribution
36. The Jazzy Groove Guide to CPython Contribution
38. PyLadies' playing it forward Sunday's poster session Sprint Contribute to the playlist Python Contributor Groove
39. Gratitude San Diego Python, PyLadies San Diego, and PyCon 2015 virtual cool cat, Paul Collins CPython contributors and core devs OpenHatch friends Requests friends PyLadies Pythonistas: past and present, near and far
40. THANK YOU Enjoy the journey Slides Source code & documentation 4:41
41. Credits Youtube - song "Horska" performed and recorded by the Halifax, Nova Scotia band Gypsophilia (Horska, Forward Music 2013). video was produced by Halifax production company Shut Up & Colour and was made possible by the support of Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. Photos: Fabrizio Sciami, For a democratic [Jazz It] Festival; Carol Willing Quotes: http://www.apassion4jazz.net