On 9/24/2010 1:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Yes, and we'd all like more people to do more "real" work. But not > everybody has the time or skills. I think this is a case where > "agreeing to disagree" is the best we can do. There is also the matter of letting people start with something they feel condident with and grow into more complicated tasks. > Specifically, Terry has made a strong case that "a few minutes per > issue" *can* improve the tracker in ways that *are* noticable to some > of the developers (and some of them have acknowledged that). It would > be nice if the "tracker trimmers"[1] could assemble 60 of those into a > few hours, and do some "real work", but that's often just not possible > (especially for people with minimal programming expertise as yet). > > > Footnotes: > [1] Trawlers take fish out of the ocean: not really the best > metaphor. Gardening is a better metaphor. For instance, while 'gardening', I discovered 4! duplicate open issues about the bug created by the difflib.SequenceMatcher heuristic. I consolidated them into one, got intrigued, did some tests with 3.1, read difflib.py, ..., and now have a patch posted written with Eli Bendersky. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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