The Development Process of Python

Python is an open source language, where everyone can contribute, but have you actually thought about working on it and making it even better?
During the last two years I contributed to Python first as a normal user and now as a core developer and with this talk I want to unveil what happens "behind the scenes".
I will talk about:

• the tools used;
• the workflow;
• the community;
  
• the structure of CPython;
• how the two main branches (Python 2.x and Python 3.x) are maintained;
• what will change with the switch from SVN to Mercurial and with the release of Python 2.7.