python-dateutil - Evening Session

Important information

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The sprint

This time we will be working in python-dateutil (https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil), one of the most downloaded libraries from PyPI and the de-facto extension for date and times manipulation in Python.

We will have the maintainer of python-dateutil -Paul Ganssle (https://github.com/pganssle)- helping and reviewing code during the sprint. He will guide us through the issue tracker (https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/issues) and organise the work to be carried out along the day.

Set up

Please have a quick look through the repo (https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil) and the documentation (https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) to understand the project.

To be able to contribute you need to:

• Install Python 2 and Python 3 (https://www.python.org/downloads/)

• Install tox (http://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html). Main tool to validate all changes.

• Install sphinx (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/install.html). To be able to generate the documentation locally.

First time contributing to an opensource project? Please have a quick look here (https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/).

Our sponsor

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Thanks to Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/company/)for providing the venue, food and bringing the maintainer to London for this sprint.