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Sun Jan 6 19:18:03 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/075925.html

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2008 2:36 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> A patch should contain edits for Misc/NEWS. Patches without
>> documentation and NEWS updates costs the committer more time
>> and reduces the likelihood of a commit.
>>
>> Even a perfect patch costs several minutes of our life time.
>> The patch must be reviewed, applied, compiled, the entire unit
>> test suite must pass and finally it must be committed and the
>> issues needs to be closed, too.
> 
> Several minutes?! The average "perfect" patch costs me more like
> between half an hour and an hour.
>

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