Re: Questions on Getting Started

Gautam,

Thanks for taking a look! Let me answer what I can below:

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Gautam Kumar <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get started with contributing to Jython, I have a few
> questions,
>
> 1. Which Developer Guide is considered the primary ?
>
> https://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonDeveloperGuide
>
>
This is the original dev guide, and it contains some very practical
information for any Jython developer, no matter how experienced.


>  OR
> http://www.jython.org/devguide/ ?
>
>
This is a work-in-progress port of the CPython dev guide. It's a great
format, and contains useful information for a new developer, but it's less
in-depth about Jython internals than the above guide.


> 2. I noticed that there was a github (
> https://github.com/jythontools/jython) mirror, Is it
> being actively used ?
>

Yes.


>
> Would it be alright if I fork and sent patches as pull requests ?
>

Please file a bug against http://bugs.jython.org/ so we can track if you do
so. Pull requests by themselves really don't have the context we need,
especially for prioritization. (Occasionally I have committed a lower
priority change as we wrap up 2.7.0, but I'm trying to stay disciplined and
focus only on urgent bugs at this point.)

FWIW, the use of bitbucket for PRs is discouraged because it's really time
consuming to get a usable diff that we can commit, just due to how
hg.python.org is managed.

Lastly, I personally consider myself a terrible, nonscalable select loop ;)
- there's more email, pull requests on github and bitbucket, bugs, tweets,
IRCs, etc, than I could ever respond to, and that's just my Jython work.
Other Jython developers here are in the same situation.


> I'm struggling with mercurial at the moment.
>

One goal of the next dev cycle (2.7.1) is to transition to
https://github.com/jython - as you can see it's waiting to be filled in.
Something we will work on during the PyCon sprints for sure!


> 3. Any recommendations of easy issues that I can try to fix ?
> I was thinking maybe
> http://bugs.jython.org/issue1376 ?
>

That's a good one, because it does go into internals, such as __dir__ vs
__rawdir__, but it's not so difficult either. Trace this through its
implementation in PyObject and other places that override it in the
inheritance hierarchy. Good luck, we hope to see a good PR! Specifically if
you do tackle http://bugs.jython.org/issue1376, mention your PR there.

One more thing: the best way to get help is to hang out on #jython on
freenode and ask questions - and ideally answer them!

- Jim

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