Hi, Oh, I just wrote a similar email to python-committers, I didn't notice that Mariatta wrote to python-dev and python-committers. https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/message/5... My worry is more about closing pull requests. Le 21/08/2019 à 22:13, Raymond Hettinger a écrit :
The capabilities of a triager mostly look good except for "closing PRs and issues". This is a superpower that has traditionally been reserved for more senior developers because it grants the ability to shut-down the work of another aspiring contributor. Marking someone else's suggestion as rejected is the most perilous and least fun aspect of core development. Submitters tend to expect their idea won't be rejected without a good deal of thought and expert consideration. Our bar for becoming a triager is somewhat low, so I don't think it makes sense to give the authority to reject a PR or close an issue.
Closing an issue (on GitHub) is not new compared to the previous "Developer" role on bugs.python.org. When I gave the bug triage permission to a contributor, I always warned them that closing an issue is the most risky operation. I asked them to ask me before doing that. In practice, I don't recall a triagger who closed an issue, but someone else complained that the issue should be reopened. In a few specific cases, the original reporter was in disagreement with everybody else and didn't understand why their issue was not a bug and will not be fixed, but it wasn't an issue about triaggers ;-) The risk of closing an issue by mistake is quite low, since the bug remains in the database, it's trivial to reopen. Closed bugs can be found using Google for example (which doesn't care of the bug status), or using bugs.python.org search engine if you opt-in for closed issues (or ignore the open/close status in a search). The topic has been discussed previously (sorry, I don't recall where), and it was said that it's ok to give this permission (close issues) to new triaggers. Now there is the question of giving the "close pull requests" permission to new triaggers ;-) Victor -- Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death.