Based on the current "burn" rate of Python's task list for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, I would estimate that we will need more tasks within at most two weeks. The current mentors are certainly capable of coming up with more tasks, but we would welcome input and ideas …
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Calling all Pythonistas,
What is your personal list of "modules you love and hate" -- stdlib modules that you use all the time, but that have weak documentation, poor examples, or are otherwise difficult to use the first time?
Here are five modules that I think could use some documentation help …
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Hi all,
I need to find some useful projects for new, young contributors, especially in the area of 3rd party packages; we've been thinking about things like porting 3rd party packages to Py3K, adding tests to existing projects, and providing Windows binary eggs for various packages. Everything would be open …
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Hey everyone,
Grig and I are thinking of doing another tutorial at PyCon '08, but we'd like to break out of the mold of "intro testing" and do something more exciting for us. Here's a promotional blurb:
Practical Agile Web Testing --------------------------- Have Web site? Need testing? Bring your tired (code …read more
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I'm happy to announce that the Python Software Foundation is part of a new Google Open Source program, the Highly Open Participation Contest. This contest is an effort by Google to engage pre-college students in open source programming: Google is offering prizes and awards for completing a variety of tasks …
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I am in need of some test automation tools for a GTK/GNOME GUI, and after scanning the Python Testing Tools Taxonomy and doing a bit of investigating, it looks like there are three possibilites.
dogtail and the Linux Desktop Testing Project both use accessibility libraries to drive GNOME applications …
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I spent a fairly satisfying two days setting up unit and functional tests for figleaf, my code coverage package. I implemented the tests using a technique that I gather is called vertical slicing -- I just called it "starting a new phase of a project" before ;). The idea is that you …
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