What do we do with tickets like this? Given that this has been ready for commit since September, I emailed a reminder to the list in October, and it's such a tiny request, I find it frustrating that this won't make it in for 1.2. Personally I have no motivation to maintain the patch going forward and would rather see the ticket get marked as "wontfix" than be pushed off indefinitely. It is poor use of sprinters' time (and defeating, both personally and to the project) to work on tickets that will never make it in to trunk.
I'm hoping this will spark a discussion about how we can work more efficiently and put donated time to better use. I may be a bit biased, because this is coming on the tail end of spending 2+ person hours trying to reproduce a ticket in the PyCon sprint that, I later found out, two others had done the same thing with a day earlier, but neither had indicated as much in the ticket. A couple ideas to get us started: 1) Reemphasize via documentation and/or training (and/or by reading this message) the proper work flow for tickets (e.g., accept it when you start working on it, post a comment when you're done, etc.): http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/#claiming-tickets 2) For each release, assign several people (I'd be happy to take a turn) the task of searching through all outstanding tickets in the milestone in question a couple weeks before the feature freeze and assigning "committable" ones to specific committers. Maybe this ticket is an outlier, but I expect there are others out there that are also getting missed. I'm not sure if this means that the current way ticket triage is outlined to work is just not happening, or if there are changes we need to make so that it works more effectively: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/#ticket-triage Cheers, Tobias On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Tobias McNulty <tob...@caktusgroup.com>wrote: > In case it's not already on someone's radar, the patch on this ticket > could use a review at some point: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9310 > > Thanks - > Tobias <http://www.caktusgroup.com> > -- Tobias McNulty Caktus Consulting Group, LLC P.O. Box 1454 Carrboro, NC 27510 (919) 951-0052 http://www.caktusgroup.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
