Re: [Jython-dev] Compliance Review

[Jeff A. <ja...@fa...>]

Those of us with commit rights help each other, and other contributors, 
achieve adequate quality, I would say. If you're at the committing end 
of this relationship, there is always the choice to be made between 
asking for change and quietly improving a contribution.

There is a coding standard, and that's useful, but I think coding 
standards do not guarantee quality. So "compliance" is probably not the 
right concept to apply, and it's more a matter of taste and experience, 
which is not uniform. We're compliant in the other sense: willing to go 
along with each other's criticism (mostly). For example, I've had to 
admit at least once that I really should have written a test to go with 
my code, when someone else gently pointed that out. In a dispute, I 
believe we'd all give way to Frank and Jim as the longest-standing 
active contributors (and Frank is the PM), although I've got away with 
disagreeing when my reasons were good.

This has worked without acrimony AFAIK during the time I've been 
contributing to Jython. I think this is a Python tradition. I found 
contributing to the main CPython dev-guide earlier this year to be an 
exercise in humility at times, but it improved my work and wasn't a bad 
experience overall.

Jeff

Jeff Allen

On 30/03/2018 15:06, Patrick Palczewski wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I wanted to ask this question: Does Jython currently have someone who 
> does compliance review, to reivew existing pr sib,submitted code to 
> ensure it complys with Jython or Python guidelines?
>
> -- 
> /Patrick Palczewski/ *VRS# 818.208.2344*
>