Guido van Rossum writes:

When something's assigned to you, you get an email. Isn't that enough? Jeremy has a script to send out reminders to everyone that he used to run weekly, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the speed with which people look at bugs.

I think a "new bugs&patches this week" email wouldn't hurt. Perhaps just "new patches", actually -- as Martin pointed out, these are probably more important. Plus there are less of them, which is no bad thing. Cheers, M. -- 42. You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html