Steven D'Aprano writes: > I don't know. What percentage of new issues get ever get a response? My > wild guess is that it's probably about 99.9%, but the 0.1% that don't > remain languishing forever, skewing the statistics.
No guess needed, we have the data. If the fraction "a" of issues ever opened is still open, and 1 in 5 open issues has no responses, then the fraction of issues that ever got a response is 4a/5 + (1 - a). (This assumes that closing an issue counts as a response, which I think is entirely reasonable.) The actual value of a is currently 13.2%, which means that about 1/9 * 1/5 = one in 45 of new issues has never received any response. IMO, that's pretty good. I don't think it's worth doing anything about, beyond giving Mark and those who volunteer with him better tools for their work. But that much should be done (again IMO). To add an anecdote to those already presented, back when I was completely new to Internet-based software development, I had an Emacs bug that was making my life miserable. I really wanted to do the Right Thing and support the GNU project, but it was the XEmacs developers that responded with interest (but zero help beyond some random suggestions that didn't pan out -- the guy who knew something about it had a different X implementation and it worked for him). You can see the difference that response made to *my* life in my email address. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
