[Python-Dev] No response to posts (original) (raw)

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Aug 1 09:41:56 CEST 2010

On 01/08/2010 02:00, Brian Curtin wrote:

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 19:48, Mark Lawrence<breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

Hi all,

I have been wading through outstanding issues today and have noticed that there are several where there has been no response at all to the initial post. Failing that, the only response has been Terry Reedy back in May 2010, and that only updating the versions affected. Would it be possible to get some code in place whereby if there is no response to the initial post, this could be flagged up after (say) 24 hours? Surely any response back to the OP is better than a complete wall of silence? Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. We could just add globally visible query which shows all issues with a message count of 1. That query currently shows 372 issues, most of which were entered within the last few months.

The query strikes me as KISS, let's try it and see how we go. On this thread on c.l.py "500 tracker orphans; we need more reviewers" started by Terry Reedy it was quoted that there were 510 orphans as at Jun 19, 3:37 am. We're getting there.

24 hours seems too soon for any kind of notification. Who would receive this notification?

I plucked this figure out of the air thinking that if an issue was going to drop under the radar, this would be the most likely time. I was considering a worst case scenario where several core triage people are at a big Python event, others are on holiday [ shame on you :) ], some looking after the kids, yet more off sick etc. Hum, perhaps 24 hours is too soon, what about a week, opinions anybody? Notifications would go to the bugs mailing list and/or #python-dev. But this is hypothetical anyway if the message count of 1 query works. Only one way to find out, let's try it.

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.

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