Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes: > [Jeremy Hylton] > > When we were working on Python 2.0, PythonLabs made a > > serious commitment to keep the list of bugs on one page. > > Lots of people fixed bugs to achieve that goal, and more > > processing power will definitely help. > > Note that we had full-time jobs working on Python then too. Well, not > entirely: at the end of the BeOpen run, all of PythonLabs was unemployed, > so we got to spend 1200% of every day volunteering to finish 2.0. I think there are more bugs being submitted now, too. We should never have told anyone about that tracker <wink>. > > One other thing that helped was that I spent many hours each > > week tracking bugs and making sure someone was working on > > them. I intend to pick that task up again for Python 2.3. > > It would be great if there were more developers to lean on > > for the bugs. > > During the times I did that task, I spent about 30 hours per week on bug + > patch triage alone. > > It would be hard to overestimate how much concerted effort it would > take to get back to "one page" again; the SF stats (I think only > admins can view the reports) Nope. At least, I can see them. > show that we're falling further behind month by month. The > "Feature Requests" tracker may as well be a trash can. It's probably better that PEP 42. That should probably be sliced up and moved back into the tracker. > OTOH, we could make a lot of progress very quickly by agreeing to > drop Python support for all save the OS + compiler Guido happens to > use <wink>. Certainly. Life would be easier if we didn't have to worry about bugs like: [ 459464 ] Math_test overflowerror on sparc64 linux (to pick a random example). I don't think keeping open bugs <50 is a realistic goal unless there's at least one person working full time on keeping things that way, and that doesn't seem likely. OTOH, a certain amount of progress is being made as the result of the current guilt trip -- let's see how long that lasts <wink>. Cheers, M. -- This is an off-the-top-of-the-head-and-not-quite-sober suggestion, so is probably technically laughable. I'll see how embarassed I feel tomorrow morning. -- Patrick Gosling, ucam.comp.misc
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