This 1-hour video provides a background on how to contribute to Python, by Carol Willing, who is a core contributor to Core Python.
Video Timestamps
00:00 Data Umbrella Introduction
04:20 Introduction to Carol Willing
05:25 Carol begins talk
08:28 Python Steering Council
10:00 Slides recap
11:41 Kind of contributions needed in Core Python
14:44 Contributing to Data/Scientific projects vs to CPython
20:01 How to start contributing to CPython
23:05 Reasons for contributing to CPython
24:05 CPython Dev Guide https://devguide.python.org
29:23 How to build and test CPython
32:27 Resources to learn about CPython Internals
35:35 Resources for contributing to python
37:10 CPython community
38:21 Getting started with Q&A
38:38 Q: Is it needed to reproduce old bugs against new versions?
40:40 Q: Multiprocessing vs Threading to increase performance
41:19 Q: Does the project have any process to find a mentor?
44:00 Q: Form your viewpoint what is the future of Python?
48:47 Q: What are the efforts of the Python Steering Council to make the community more inclusive?
52:29 Q: What will be the impact of the PEG parser?
54:12 Q: Development time vs. Code performance optimal performance
Resources
Python List of Issues
- Issues: https://bugs.python.org
3 Mailing Lists to sign up for to get started with contributing to Python:
- Python Ideas: Mailman 3 Info | python-ideas@python.org - python.org
- Python dev: https://cpython-core-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/python_dev.html
- Python core mentorship: Python Core Mentorship | Python.org
About the Speaker
Carol Willing works as a Technical Evangelist for Noteable. She is a member of Python’s Steering Council and a core developer of CPython. She’s a Python Software Foundation Fellow and former Director. In 2019, she was awarded the Frank Willison Award for technical and community contributions to Python. Carol is a long-time contributor and ACM Software Systems award winner for Project Jupyter. She sits on its Steering Council and works as a Core Developer on JupyterHub and mybinder.org. She serves as a co-editor of The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) and co-authored an open source book, Teaching and Learning with Jupyter. Carol has an MS in Management from MIT and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WillingCarol
GitHub: willingc (Carol Willing) · GitHub
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolwilling
