geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> 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. Sorry for misinterpreting your intentions. I was reading this in the context of "judicious application of PSF funds". What you are describing is of course quite judicious. To me, "PSF sponsored" sounded like there would be a lot more money involved. Stefan Krah
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