Python Secret Weblog for 2009 December

(1) Thu Dec 17 2009 23:00 Balancing stability and innovation in open source:

A good open source community should have a good developer and user support infrastructure. It should have things such as:

• releases that are recent enough to be useful
• up to date and helpful documentation
• a good web site
• a helpful and active mailing list
• automated tests
• well maintained change notes
• well managed issue tracker
• well managed version control system

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Sat Dec 19 2009 16:44 Titus Brown on the importance of communication:

I just read an insightful article by Titus Brown about the importance of communication in a team project, in the context of open source projects. It is a very good articulation of a topic I've thought about a lot myself as well.

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Mon Dec 28 2009 22:47 New Year's Python Meme:

From Tarek through Lennart:

1. What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009?

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