Development Workflow

• Following Python’s Development
  • Standards of behaviour in these communication channels
  • Mailing Lists
  • Discourse (discuss.python.org web forum)
    • Tutorials for new users
    • Reading topics
    • Notifications
      • Following categories (Category notifications)
      • Following individual threads (Topic notifications)
      • Customising notifications on user preference
    • Enabling mailing list mode
  • Discord (private chat server)
  • IRC
  • Blogs
  • Setting Expectations for Open Source Participation
  • Additional Repositories
• Development Cycle
  • Branches
    • In-development (main) branch
    • Maintenance branches
    • Security branches
    • End-of-life branches
  • Stages
    • Pre-alpha
    • Alpha
    • Beta
    • Release Candidate (RC)
    • Final
  • Repository Administration
    • Organization Repository Policy
    • Organization Owner Policy
    • Current Owners
    • Repository Administrator Role Policy
    • Current Administrators
    • Repository Release Manager Role Policy
• Adding to the Stdlib
  • Adding to a pre-existing module
  • Adding a new module
    • Acceptable Types of Modules
    • Requirements
    • Proposal Process
• Standard Library Extension Modules
• Changing Python’s C API
  • The internal API
    • With PyAPI_FUNC or PyAPI_DATA
    • With the extern keyword
    • Private names
    • Internal API Tests
  • Public C API
    • C API Tests
  • Limited API
    • Guidelines for changing the Limited API, and removing items from it
    • Guidelines for adding to the Limited API
    • Adding a new definition to the Limited API
    • Limited API Tests
• Changing the Python Language
  • What Qualifies
  • Suggesting new features and language changes
  • PEP Process
• Changing CPython’s Grammar
  • Abstract
  • Checklist
• Porting to a New Platform