On Jan 31, 2008 1:50 AM, Jesus Cea
Martin v. Löwis wrote: | I also agree with Nick as to what the purpose of assignments is. | To indicate that you are working on a specific issue, a message | saying so is enough (which could also include estimated completion | dates, which a mere self-assignment can't).
So, in the concrete case of http://bugs.python.org/issue1976 , patch available, what the next step would be?. Must I contact Greg (previous bsddb maintainer, with python commit access) to review, apply patch (more coming, so no hurry) and tracker update?.
Yes, that's the typical approach. After a while, if your patches are generally good, Greg will trust you and stop reviewing your code in detail; eventually he will recommend you be granted commit privileges.
Should I maintain bsddb tracking outside python one, to reduce your burden?.
No. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)