- Getting started
- Development workflow
- Issues and triaging
- Documentation
- Testing and buildbots
- Development tools
- Core team
- CPython’s internals
- Status of Python versions
- Python Contributor’s Guide (draft)
- [Plan for the Contributor’s Guide]
- Introduction
- The CPython project
- Issues and triaging
- Documentation contributions
- Code contributions
- Core team
- Accessibility, design, and user success
- Security and infrastructure contributions
- Workflows
Introduction¶
Important
This is part of aDraft of the Python Contributor’s Guide.Text in square brackets are notes about content to fill in.Currently, the devguide and this new Contributor’s Guide co-exist in therepo. We are using Sphinx include directives to demonstrate the re-organization.The final Contributor’s Guide will replace the devguide with content in only oneplace.We welcome help with this!
The[Plan for the Contributor’s Guide] page has more details about the current state of this draftandhow you can help. See more info about the Contributor Guide in thediscussion forum:Refactoring the DevGuide.
[Open question: how to divide content between this Introduction and thehome page?]
Welcome!
New to open source?¶
Python is an open source project, with culture and techniques from the broaderopen source world. You might find it helpful to read about open source ingeneral. A number of individuals from the Python community have contributed toa series of excellent guides atOpen Source Guides.
Anyone will find the following guides useful:
Healthy collaboration¶
[Importance of healthy inclusive collaboration]
[While code is a large part of the project’s success, project management, documentation, governance, sprint outreach, etc. matter.]
[We respect the individual skills people bring to the project and strive to create and maintain a culture of inclusion.]
About this guide¶
Types of contribution¶
[Pathways for contributors]