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The Python developer's guide
Originally from http://bugs.python.org/issue23320
https://github.com/python/devguide/blob/master/triaging.rst#keywords currently states that "easy" issues shouldn't take more than a day for someone new to CPython development, but @gvanrossum pointed out in http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue605 that that _at least_ needs to...
Originally from http://bugs.python.org/issue24016
It came up in https://bugs.python.org/issue32690 that it's not at all clear how to revert commits to a maintenance branch if we decide that a change shouldn't have been backported after...
I learned of the purpose of https://github.com/python/cpython-source-deps repo while working on https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/4246 :) It should be documented somewhere in the devguide, not sure where. Maybe under "Additional Repositories" in https://devguide.python.org/communication/...
There seem to be 3 variations of the `git push` command: 1. Use `git push origin branchname` and always specify the remote and the branch 2. Use `git push -u...
In writing https://bugs.python.org/issue30478#msg294528, I went looking in the `ctypes` docs to see if there was a note saying that it's relatively trivial to trigger segfaults with that module, so if...
The index page has become rather long and is starting to feel like a wall of text. It should probably be clearly separated into 3 sections: 1. New contributors a....
It would be a nice addition to the devguide if the benchmarks section of *runtests.rst* contained the minimal commands needed to run `pyperformance` for comparing the potential performance diffs introduced...
Thanks to Codecov and Travis, not only do we have continuous code coverage reports, but we have included instructions on how to run coverage.py as well. Once python/core-workflow#18 is dealt...