Tomas Roun
I am a software engineer at CERN in Geneva, currently working on Indico,
an open-source software for meeting and conference management and
also SWAN, a platform for interactive analysis based on JupyterHub.
My passion for software and Open Source goes beyond my work. I am an active
contributor to many open-source projects such as CPython, Babel and many more.
In my free time I also like to design and build mechanical keyboards and print cool things
with my 3D printer.
Session
Step 1: Fix a bug
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Core developer
Ok, it's not that simple but it's also not as mysterious as it might seem!
About three years ago I fixed an obscure bug in the unittest module. Today, I'm a core developer. This talk is about what happened in between, and how you can start contributing too!
Over the years, I got to work on many different areas of Python. I've fixed bugs in the parser, added import autocomplete to the REPL, worked on gettext tooling, and eventually found my way to the JIT compiler, all things I knew little about before diving in.
Getting started contributing to Python can be intimidating, so I'll share some practical things I learned along the way such as:
- How is the CPython project organized?
- How do you find something to work on? (and why it doesn't have to be code!)
- What happens after you submit a PR?
- How do you navigate a 30 year old codebase without getting lost?
If you've ever wanted to contribute to Python but weren't sure where to start, this talk is for you.