New pylint/astng release, but... pylint needs you !

After several months with no time to fix/enhance pylint beside answering email and filing tickets, I've finally tackled some tasks yesterday night to publish bug fixes releases ([1] and [2]).

The problem is that we don't have enough free time at Logilab to lower the number of tickets in pylint tracker page . If you take a look at the ticket tab, you'll see a lot of pendings bug and must-have features (well, and some other less necessary...). You can already easily contribute thanks to the great mercurial dvcs, and some of you do, either by providing patches or by reporting bugs (more tickets, iiirk ! ;) Thank you all btw !!

Now I was wondering what could be done to make pylint going further, and the first ideas which came to my mind was :

• do ~3 days sprint
• do some 'tickets killing' days, as done in some popular oss projects

But for this to be useful, we need your support, so here are some questions for you:

• would you come to a sprint at Logilab (in Paris, France), so you can meet us, learn a lot about pylint, and work on tickets you wish to have in pylint?
• if France is too far away for most people, would you have another location to propose?
• would you be on jabber for a tickets killing day, providing it's ok with your agenda? if so, what's your knowledge of pylint/astng internals?

you may answer by adding a comment to this blog (please register first by using the link at the top right of this page) or by mail to sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr. If we've enough positive answers, we'll take the time to organize such a thing.