Hi folks -- "Design decision needed" is where good tickets go to die. The idea was that someone could come by later and make the decision, but as it turns out, Someone doesn't work here. In practice, DDN tickets sat open, often for years, and just frustrated everyone.
So we're getting rid of DDN; we (mostly Aymeric, thanks!) closed out all of 'em over the last few weeks, and we're removing the status today. We're working on updating the contributing docs to reflect this change. If you're working on triage, this means that instead of marking a ticket DDN you should do one of the following: - Just make the decision yourself. If you're 75% sure that a ticket is legit, just mark it "accepted" and move on. Likewise, if you're 80% sure a ticket is invalid, mark it so. Remember that nothing's set in stone; it's perfectly OK to be wrong. When I talk to people in the community, most of them tell me that what frustrates them about the ticket process is inaction. They'd rather have a ticket marked "wontfix" quickly than have it sit in an indeterminate state for months or years. - Find someone else (in #django-dev on IRC is a good bet) who can help you make a call. - For "big" features, or tickets that're otherwise hard to act on, move them to the mailing list for discussion. There's a class of tickets -- feature additions, usually -- that don't do well on the ticket tracker. In these cases we need a concrete proposal and/or patches to be able to make a call correctly, so the right place to hash that stuff out is here, not in Trac. In these cases, we'll usually close the ticket until a real concrete proposal emerges. Thanks, please let me know if you have questions! Jacob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
