[Python-Dev] Goodbye (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Sep 22 12:47:00 CEST 2010

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:16:52 -0400 Jack Diederich <jackdied at gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I'm rather sad to have been sacked, but such is life.  I won't be doing any > more work on the bug tracker for obvious reasons, but hope that you who have > managed to keep your voluntary jobs manage to keep Python going.

Umm, what? You mean http://bugs.python.org/issue2180 ? """ Mark, please stop closing these based on age. The needs to be a determination whether this is a valid bug. If so, then a patch is needed. If not, it can be closed.""" Am I missing something?

Simply, situations like the above (Mark closing a bug just because nobody would answer his message on a short delay) have happened multiple times - despite people opposing, obviously -, and we decided that it was better to remove his tracker privileges since his contribution has not really been productive for us.

There was a whole python-dev thread some time (weeks? months?) ago where several of us already tried to suggest more fruitful ways of contributing, suggestions which weren't received very welcomingly AFAIR.

Now I understand that opinions over this may vary and involve multiple factors, but I would suggest that at least a bit of mentoring is needed if we want to give privileges early on. (and the amount of mentoring needed can vary wildly from one person to another)

Regards

Antoine.

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