Re: [Docutils-develop] Contributing to Docutils

[David G. <go...@py...>]

David Priest wrote:
 > Okay, despite the full two days of trying to wrap my brain around
 > Docutils' coding, and despite the obvious newbieness of my
 > programming efforts (I made some errors that are now, in retrospect,
 > dead obvious),

...and despite the known inadequacy of the internals docs...

 > I'd like to continue helping with the programming effort.

We're happy to have you!

 > I'll probably require a fair bit of handholding while I relearn
 > Python.  It's been years since I tried doing anything useful with
 > it, and the language has changed substantially, plus I never did try
 > to get tricksy and pro with it.

Ask and ye shall receive... answers.

 > What shall I do?  Let's start small...

There's a slew of ideas in http://docutils.sf.net/docs/dev/todo.html
and several bugs waiting to be squashed in
http://docutils.sf.net/BUGS.html

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>