[Tracker-discuss] [issue373] Add 'module' field to tracker

[Ezio Melotti]

Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment:

Something similar to the "module" field already exists: the nosy list autocomplete can search for module maintainers and developers can add themselves if they are interested to specific modules.

One possible option is to move this information from the devguide to the tracker, so that everyone (including non-developers) can list the modules they want to maintain.
If this happens, we could also move the "interest areas" to the tracker, and possibly merge them with and/or use them to replace the "components".  The result would be a few fixed set of tags (module names, interest areas) that can be used to find people interested to a specific issue and possibly to mark/tag the issue.
If we want to add another layer of complexity we might also let the user decide what kind of notification they want to have (auto-assign, auto-nosy, just some visual hint for potentially interesting issues).

Once people agree on one of these ideas, someone will have to turn it in a concrete proposal (that should include both the UI changes necessary and how the whole thing is supposed to work), and then someone will have to implement it.


>>>> * there are hundreds of modules;
>>> How many exactly? I doubt there is more than hundred.
>> More than two hundreds.
> How many exactly?

209 on the "experts" page, 265 in help('modules').  Note that help('modules') lists some C _modules (like several _codecs_*) that are not listed on the "experts" page but otoh it just lists the root of packages, without listing all the subpackages (e.g. only 'xml' instead of 'xml.dom', 'xml.sax', 'xml.etree').

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