[Twisted-Python] Re: Evangelism notes...

[Michael Hudson]

Mary Gardiner <mary-twisted at puzzling.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 05, 2005, Michael Hudson wrote:
>> Python appears to have more worker bees than Twisted who do the kind
>> of general work radix was asking for, despite none of them being paid
>> to do it; this is probably mostly a function of just being a bigger,
>> more visible project (after all, every Twisted user is a Python user).
>
> This probably shouldn't be assumed though. If that's all it is, OK,
> damn.

Well, maybe it's just luck, or statistics of small numbers.  After
all, Python doesn't have very many worker bees compared to the long
list of people who have checkin rights.

> But if there's something about the Python community which is
> qualitatively different and which encourages the kind of work being
> discussed, Twisted should consider emulating it.

The (maybe just perceived, maybe real) barrier to entry is probably
higher for twisted.  Maybe you need more simple-to-fix bugs :)

Cheers,
mwh

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