PyCon 2015 talk - Finding your Groove: Contributing to CPython and beyone

1. Finding your
Groove
Contributing to CPython
Carol Willing
@willingcarol

2. Groove
An infectious feeling of
rightness in the rhythm,
of being perfectly centered.

3. Commit

4. Jump into it

5. Find your rhythm

6. Improvise

7. Finding your groove
Commit
Jump into it
Find your rhythm
Improvise

8. Commit

9. Step into your greatness.
Don't be afraid...
No one else could do what you do.
— Keb Mo'

10. Commit to others
I've had the pleasure
of playing with the
baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
— George Benson

11. Commit to yourself

12. Jump into it

13. Method
Python Developer's Guide

14. Gather your gear
Editor - your choice
Operating system - Linux, OS X, Windows
Command line - basics
Version control - basics of Mercurial (hg) and git

15. Check out sheet music
hg clone https://hg.python.org/cpython
git clone https://github.com/python/cpython
CPython official repo
CPython semi official, read-only GitHub mirror
Transpose Mercurial and Git

16. A little theory...
source code directory
Docs
Tests
Operating system
Standard library

17. Listen
My first relationship to any kind of
musical situation is as a listener.
— Pat Metheny

18. Create a playlist
pyvideo.org

19. Join a band...
Core Mentorship

20. ...or several combos
#python-dev
Mailing lists
python-ideas, python-docs, python-new-bugs-announce
Welcoming spaces
OpenHatch, PyLadies, user groups
Sprints and pairing
#positive-python

21. Find your rhythm

22. Wrong and strong
Loud and proud
Along the way, mistakes WILL be made.
Not all things tried will work out. But
that impulse, the impulse to TRY THINGS,
is perhaps the most attractive -- and
sometimes the most underutilized.
— Pat Metheny

23. Selecting a solo

24. Docs
Sphinx
$cd Docs
$make html
reStructured Text (rst) basics
Find an issue
Read a doc; offer a helpful change
Localize a doc

25. Testing
Run tests on your system
Find a testing issue
Improve testing fu
Keep Buildbots green

26. Issues
Follow along new issues and python-dev
Look at infrastructure projects
Ask on core mentorship
Consider reviewing a patch

27. Onboarding and beyond
Inspire
Equip
Listen
Encourage

28. The most amazing new
feature...
Research issue tracker, mail archives, PEPs
Review other people's patches
Be cordial
PEP 478 Release schedule for Python 3.5

29. Improvise

30. people

31. people

32. people

33. I have won several prizes as the world's
slowest alto player as well as a special
award in 1961 for quietness.
— Paul Desmond

34. Find your Python groove?
Try a sprint
Learn, build, and share
Embrace some Gypsy Jazz
Thank you Django lover, Adrian Holovaty, for PyCon
2014 Poster Session encouragement

35. PyLadies'
playing it forward
The Jazzy Groove Guide to
CPython Contribution

36. The Jazzy Groove Guide
to CPython Contribution

38. PyLadies' playing it
forward
Sunday's poster session
Sprint
Contribute to the playlistPython Contributor Groove

39. Gratitude
San Diego Python, PyLadies San Diego, and PyCon 2015
virtual cool cat, Paul Collins
CPython contributors and core devs
OpenHatch friends
Requests friends
PyLadies
Pythonistas: past and present, near and far

40. THANK YOU
Enjoy the journey
Slides
Source code & documentation
4:41

41. Credits
Youtube - song "Horska" performed and recorded by the
Halifax, Nova Scotia band Gypsophilia (Horska, Forward
Music 2013). video was produced by Halifax production
company Shut Up & Colour and was made possible by
the support of Nova Scotia Department of Communities,
Culture and Heritage.
Photos: Fabrizio Sciami, For a democratic [Jazz It]
Festival; Carol Willing
Quotes: http://www.apassion4jazz.net