[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Mon Jul 12 13:17:07 CEST 2010

geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote: > Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> (This seems to me like an area where a judicious application of PSF funds might help; if every >> >>> single bug were actively triaged and responded to, even if it weren't reviewed, and patch >> >>> contributors were directed to take specific steps to elicit a response or a review, the fact that >> >>> patch reviews take a while might not be so bad.) >> >> >> >> The operative word being "judicious". It is not obvious who should get >> >> funded, and for what tasks. >> >> Some specific issues (like email in 3.x) are large enough that they can >> >> be the sole focus of a fund grant. But I'm not sure triaging can apply. >> > >> > I'm mulling over starting a monthly triage sprint under the auspices of >> > Jesse Noeller's PSF sponsored sprints in the hopes of making this a >> > little more fun. I'd appreciate comments on the idea. > > [responding to Geremy] > > I'm with Georg on this. If triaging needs a monetary incentive because it > is tedious work, so does committing. A lot of the abandoned issues aren't > very glamorous either.

I'm not sure what you mean by "monetary incentive". I was considering handing a t-shirt or beer token to the most productive sprinters, but that's about the limit of it, and I suspect that would come out of my pocket.

Sorry for misinterpreting your intentions. I was reading this in the context of "judicious application of PSF funds". What you are describing is of course quite judicious.

To me, "PSF sponsored" sounded like there would be a lot more money involved.

Stefan Krah

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