The fact that one of the core founders of Django has responded to say "Consider it done", is probably about as official as it can get.
I have gone ahead and written up a section explaining how the 5-for-1 system works, any amendments or additions would be welcomed. https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/UsingTheMailingList#a5-for-1 The more people that know about this, the better.. if everyone could try and mention it in passing conversations on IRC, or on stale tickets/discussions etc. Hope this helps Cal On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org>wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] > <cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > > * Make the 5-for-1 (or 10-for-1) system official, not many people seem to > > realise this exists. This will give incentive to core devs to spend a bit > > longer on a ticket, maybe even throwing in a pleasentry or two > (optional). I > > often found that if I assisted with other tickets and showed myself to be > > proactive on the ML, then my tickets would usually get the attention of a > > core dev faster and/or with more detailed response. > > Consider it done - I'll take any and all 5:1 requests personally, and > I'll shame.... uh... *encourage* other core devs to do the same. > > What do you think we should do to make it more "official"? Add it to > the contribution docs? Put it on the code.d.c somewhere? > > 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. > > > -- 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.