2017-12-08 17:19 GMT+01:00 Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com>: >> Aha. Maybe we need some tooling, like statistics on contributions to the >> bug tracker, just to detect earlier active "bug triagers"? >> > > This can be done (e.g. the famous highscores page we have been talking about).
My opinion on such statistics is that they must not be public. I don't want to reward the highest number of contributions. As I wrote in the process documentation, what matters is the quality and kind of the contributions, and also the commitment. But a private tool, only accessible to core dev for example, would easy the work of identifying active contributors. > There are however other triagers that just go through the issues and > adjust fields or comment, even if they have no intention of working on > the issue itself. > While it's technically true that there might be people that want to > triage but not contribute code, most of them do contribute, and triage > while going through the issues. Hum, as Ned Deily wrote, some people don't want to become core developers and are fine to contribute as regular contributors. I should clarify this in the document. By the way, since the migration to Git and GitHub, contributing without being a core dev became simpler IMHO. >> My hope is that many contributors are potential core developers but were >> stuck somewhere, and failed to get the right documentation or mentor to >> unblock them. >> > > This is a good point, but indeed, how many are contributing with the > goal and hope of becoming core devs? How many are contributing > because they like the project, and would be happy to become core devs? > How many are just scratching a itch but otherwise have no desire to > contribute to other aspects of the project? > Finding an answer to these questions might help understanding where > are the problems that need to be addressed. Ow, these are tricky questions! Maybe a poll sent to contributors, or to python-dev, would help? Victor _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/