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""The Python 3000 project needs volunteers!"" Here's a list of resources: ["Python3000"]; here's a list of tasks: Py3kStrUniTests. '''The Python 3000 project needs volunteers!''' Here's a list of resources: ["Python3000"]; here's a list of tasks: Py3kStrUniTests.

Helping to Develop Python

The best place to go for information on how to get involved in core development is http://www.python.org/dev/. It's also good to hang out on the python-dev mailing list, or browse the Sourceforge trackers for interesting items to tackle. The Python Bug Days are also a great way to get involved.

You don't need C programming skills - or any programming skills - to help out. Documentation patches are always helpful. Or if you can code in Python, feel free to help out with the standard library.

Patch Review

Currently, patches often go unreviewed for a long time (several months), basically because none of the committers has the time to review them. This is where the community can help: if you have spare time, please review patches. Please follow the PatchReviewGuidelines (yet to be written). When you come to a final assessment of a patch, please record it in the PatchTriage page.

Hacking on the C core

For C coders, you really need to be able to build Python from sources. On Unix, that shouldn't be a problem, but Windows users may have problems doing this, as the tools used to build the standard Python binaries (MS Visual C++) are not free.

Free C Compilers for Windows

There are free compilers for Windows. The Cygwin environment offers a full Unix emulation under Windows, including the gcc compiler, and Python is supported on Cygwin. So you could work on Python under Cygwin.

There is a "native" port of gcc for Windows (mingw32), as well. However, although there are patches to allow Python to be built using mingw, these are not part of the main sources, and so are not "official" at the present time.

Also, Microsoft have released the command line tools (compiler, linker, etc) from the Visual Studio product needed to build Python as free downloads. With a little work, these can be used to build a complete, compatible Python binary on Windows. The process is a little involved, so I'll describe it on a separate page - ["Building Python with the free MS C Toolkit"]

Python 3000

The Python 3000 project needs volunteers! Here's a list of resources: ["Python3000"]; here's a list of tasks: Py3kStrUniTests.

CoreDevelopment (last edited 2011-02-03 02:55:25 by RDavidMurray)

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