On Apr 14, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

I see the confusion. I think Martin meant more about open issues that required discussion, not simply issues that had a patch ready to go.

Ach. I hit 'send' too soon. I also wanted to say: it seemed quite clear to me that Martin specifically meant "simply issues that had a patch ready to go". Quoting him exactly:

Please understand that setting the state of an issue to "review" may *not* be the best way to trigger a review - it may be more effective to post to python-dev if you truly believe that the patch can be committed as-is.

It seems that perhaps the core developers have slightly different opinions about this? :)