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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Aug 3 00:43:53 CEST 2010

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:13:01 -0500 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2010/8/2 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote: >> I'm only referring to the infrastructure when I say "the current >> setup." I don't think repeatedly tweaking the tracker is likely to >> close more issues. > > But tweaking the tracker to improve the way we interact with > potential contributors may get more developers in the long run, as > well as closing more issues. Currently, if a bug doesn't get responded > to immediately by people monitoring the bugs list, then there's no > easy way to go back and query "hey, are there any bugs nobody has even > looked at yet?". All this discussion is about is acknowledging that > that is something we should try to keep under control by listing them > in the weekly summary and by making them easy to look up.

Well, I just feel like we keep changing things to little result, creating an organic mess of fields and statuses. Adding more queries is fine, but let's not bow to the temptation to add more fields.

FWIW, I completely agree with Benjamin.

Regards

Antoine.

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