[lxml-dev] Call for Contribution: lxml 0.9

[Stefan Behnel]

Hello, everyone!

Martijn and I realised that there has not been a release of lxml for quite a
while - despite a lot of important changes to the code base.

We therefore agreed to prepare the release of lxml 0.9 for

*Monday, March 20*.

The remaining time will be used to get the trunk ready for a release. It will
include the current feature set of the trunk plus the support for extension
functions that is currently implemented in the scoder2 branch. The latter
still needs a bit of discussion and merging. Any comments on this are appreciated.


For you, this announcement means the following.

- If you want any features included, make sure you send requests and patches
to the list within the next days or try to fix a date when a patch will be
available. Remember that we may have to discuss patches before applying them.

- If you feel that you especially like or dislike anything about the new
features and the way they are made available through APIs, feel free to tell
us over the list.

- If you feel that anything from past discussions has been left out that
should be worth remembering for a new release, speak up now.

- We know that there are still a few places where documentation would help
users to understand new features. A good way to contribute would therefore be
to look through the documentation in the "doc" directory and see if it is
understandable or if there is anything you might want to add.

- In the same line, usage examples in the form of doctests would be nice to
have for more API functions. They also belong into the files in the "doc"
directory, which are (or must be) called from the related test cases in
src/lxml/tests.

Happy coding,
Stefan