Free threading glossary of building blocks
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Description
As suggested by @markshannon and @Yhg1s:
- What are the building blocks? Things like
_Py_TryXGetRefand_Py_TryIncrefCompare. - What are the thread safety guarantees that we are aiming for?
InternalDocs might be a good place.
Linked PRs
- gh-144644
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the InternalDocs area and the linked PR gh-144644 first. The issue identifies _Py_TryXGetRef and _Py_TryIncrefCompare as examples and asks for the building blocks and target thread-safety guarantees. Done means those concepts and guarantees are documented in a glossary.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100