[Python-Dev] another Python Bug Day? (original) (raw)

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 00🔞46 CET 2009

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

This is a years-old problem that is not going to be fixed overnight (unfortunately). But it is known and is being worked on (moving to a DVCS, writing up docs on the development process to cut down on bad patches, etc.).

It's encouraging to hear that it's been worked on. I assume the idea is that eventually leiutenanents will maintain their own Python trees in a similar way to what happens with the Linux kernel currently?

An interim solution that occurred to me is to give a few more people enhanced access to the issue tracker and to create a ready-for-committing keyword that these new issue wranglers could apply to bugs that have patches and which they think are ready for committing. Actual committers could then come along and search for the given keyword to find things to examine for committing. This would also act as testing ground for potential developers -- once committers feel that the patches an issue wrangler approves really are consistently good enough, they can consider promoting the issue wrangler to a full developer.

Schiavo Simon

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