Re: Contributing to Jython

Hello David,

help on this front is truely appreciated! Thanks for joining.

While the guide should be mostly up to date, it is straight forward these days to work with our github mirror at

https://github.com/jythontools/jython

You can file PRs against that mirror and some of the core-devs takes care to merge it via hg if it gets accepted.

Use https://github.com/jython/jython3 if you want do help with Jython 3.

That said, depending on what you want to do, I guess you could go on with one of the following directions roughly:

- go to http://bugs.jython.org/ and choose your favorit issue to work on. We would discuss details there and give guidance if we can.

One of the most challenging and hottest issues is http://bugs.jython.org/issue2487 (blocked release for a while), it requires notable skills with Java threading, synchronization and stuff. But any issue is fine I suppose.

- after 2.7.1 release, a major challenge will be to merge 2.7.1 with Jython 3. Jython 3 was froked shortly after 2.7.0 release and 2.7 branch received important improvements since then. On the other hand, serious work was done on Jython 3 branch as well. IMO we will have to go through changes and merge one by one (i.e. those relevant for Jython 3). I hope the major part of this work can be done in a semi-automated manner. However, every bit of help will be very useful on this front

- Jython is going to adopt CPython's github based new workflow. Also, we are planning to move from ant to gradle. If you want to help on setup stuff, talk to Darjus or Jim

- something else? Just aks. E.g. docs and wiki need improvement; there is JyNI - talk to me for that; Clamp - talk to Jim or Darjus for that...

Looking forward to work with you.

Best

-Stefan

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2017 um 22:39 Uhr

Von: "David Charles" <[email protected]>

An: [email protected]

Betreff: [Jython-dev] Contributing to Jython

Thus sayeth Jim Baker in a separate discussion:

"But do be aware we are usually at most 2 to 5 developers, working in our spare time. So

everything takes much longer than one would hope."

I use Jython in my daily work and would like to help. Is this contribution guide up-to-date?

http://www.jython.org/devguide/

Thanks,

David

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