On 12/07/2010 11:37, geremy condra wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Stefan Krah<stefan at bytereef.org> wrote: >> Jesse Noller<jnoller at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, geremy condra<debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> (This seems to me like an area where a judicious application of PSF funds might help; if every >>>>>> single bug were actively triaged and responded to, even if it weren't reviewed, and patch >>>>>> contributors were directed to take specific steps to elicit a response or a review, the fact that >>>>>> patch reviews take a while might not be so bad.) >>>>> >>>>> The operative word being "judicious". It is not obvious who should get >>>>> funded, and for what tasks. >>>>> Some specific issues (like email in 3.x) are large enough that they can >>>>> be the sole focus of a fund grant. But I'm not sure triaging can apply. >>>> >>>> I'm mulling over starting a monthly triage sprint under the auspices of >>>> Jesse Noeller's PSF sponsored sprints in the hopes of making this a >>>> little more fun. I'd appreciate comments on the idea. >> >> [responding to Geremy] >> >> I'm with Georg on this. If triaging needs a monetary incentive because it >> is tedious work, so does committing. A lot of the abandoned issues aren't >> very glamorous either. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "monetary incentive". I was considering > handing a t-shirt or beer token to the most productive sprinters, but > that's about the limit of it, and I suspect that would come out of my > pocket. Any chance of getting me a t-shirt autographed by the one and only BDFL? :) > > I'd also emphasize that I am exactly as far as I stated on this: I'm > mulling it over and asking for feedback. If it turns out that there > are other things that python-dev feels are more necessary but > similarly unglamorous, then I'll think about doing that instead. > >> Also, from the work that Mark Lawrence has been doing on the tracker in >> the past few weeks, it's apparent that a dedicated person can achieve a >> lot without pay. > > Indeed, although I'm again unsure what pay has to do with this. > >> Due to his tracker reshuffling, many issues got closed, several bug >> reporters responded after years, etc. Thanks, Mark! > > +1 > > Geremy Condra Geremy, Stefan, Jesse and anyone that I might have missed, thanks for your kind responses, its given me quite a lift. For the record note that I only got going because of a post on c.l.py from Terry Reedy, and that he too has been doing similar work on the issue tracker, my round Terry. :) Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence
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