The Cheesecake project

Google has once again sponsored their Summer of Code, which funds many different software development projects by students around the world. This year, 25 different Python projects have been funded. There are some terrific projects: for instance, one project is set to improve the Python debugger, while another will add new features to PyDev.

Unfortunately, there is also Cheesecake, a project to measure "code quality" within Python modules that are contributed to the Cheese Shop (Python's public module repository). This quality metric will be published along with the module in order to inform potential users how "good" the code is. I'd comment more, but Fredrik Lundh (aka EffBot) has already posted about the stupidity of this project. I'll just link to him.

Just a side note: I've seen the EffBot tangle with plenty of people, including Uche Ogbuji and the BDFL himself, Guido. He can be abrasive, but 99% of the time he's right. (Sorta the python-dev community's equivalent of Dr. House!) If Fredrik jumped in and said my project was stupid, I'd have to think pretty hard about whether to continue.