The OpenHatch project created this page for would-be GSoC/OPW participants: https://openhatch.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Python (it’s also useful for anyone wanting to contribute).

It contains platform-specific advice to install an IRC client and navigate using the command line, links to a Mercurial tutorial, recommends to join core-mentorship, and then defers to the devguide.

Nick Coghlan and IIRC R. David Murray suggested we link to that page from the devguide.  I think it makes sense, as we don’t want to include everything in it.

I will go ahead and try to add the link to the page from the devguide. Thanks!

I added a link to the OpenHatch's "Contributing to Python" page right next to the "Getting Started" link. I thought about adding it to Additional Resources, but someone on the mailing list suggested it go somewhere on the top. I also wanted to place it where it would have good exposure. That way, if people are completely new to contributing, then they find that link first.

Would like to get reviewed and feedback! Thanks!

I think it would make sense to have the link at the top of the setup.rst file instead, so that people being directly linked to that page would see the link too.

Sure! I've changed it so that it is in the setup.rst. Does that work?

Thanks, I will change one detail and push this.

Thank you!!

New changeset 3ffbbbac0a4d by Éric Araujo in branch 'default':
Link to OpenHatch setup guide (#20882).
http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/3ffbbbac0a4d

Sorry for the delay, I was sick today.

The thing I changed: “setup guide” is now the link text, as I think it makes more sense that “OpenHatch” (and if one day we work more with OpenHatch, the word will be free to become another link).

Thanks for the patch!