On 5 March 2015 at 19:53, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hmm, that's a problem - but yes, even if they can only add comments, >> saying "Please close as unreproducible", "Duplicate of XXX", "Please >> add label YYY" would be helpful. The committers could trawl such >> comments occasionally and action them. > > I personally get emails for every issue, closing duplicates or adding > labels and such is something that takes 15 seconds to do if someone leaves > a comment like that.
Ditto. The only real slowdown is considering whether I trust the opinion of whoever added the comment. And as people contribute more, that becomes progressively easier. > Another option is to move our issue tracker off of > Github into something else that supports non-committers being able to > manage the issue tracker. Empowering non core to do more things is another > thing that would be useful and requires someone to take the time to figure > out how we can best do that (switch away from GH issues? To What?) and then > actually do the work to make it happen (create salt states to deploy, create > scripts to migrate etc). The python core has a system of people getting tracker privileges that mean that they can and do have a group of people who contribute via issue triage, reviews, etc. Many such people graduate to becoming core developers, and those that don't still provide a hugely valuable service. It's a shame github doesn't have a way for us to do that, but of course setting up an alternative tracker would be yet another drain on our limited developer resources. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
