On 21/02/2022 20:44, Glyph wrote:
I’m in a similar place myself. I could probably put more effort forth if we could get a bit more of a small commitment from more other developers. I do not want to spend my time as a full-time unpaid twisted maintainer, or simply slogging through reviewing old tickets while never developing any interesting new features myself.
Heh, have the tickets auto-close after 30 days... While I find this infuriating myself, it's certainly effective triage and a lot of python projects with a high ratio of users to maintainers are doing it. If an issue is hitting a lot of people, it'll get re-raised soon enough ;-)
It makes me wish we could have a sort of open source mutually-assured maintenance system, where we all put in some number of hours and get some small reward (like bragging rights, a little badge?) out of meeting that commitment. But that also requires some volunteers[1] to go build it.
This trial maintenance is also something I’m definitely interested in, but I don’t think /just/ a small commitment from me and JP would be quite enough to get it somewhere meaningful.
Speaking just for myself, my problem is that while I respect Twisted and really heavily hammer it while being massively impressed how it behaves, I don't enjoy working on the code base :-/ I've yet to hit a "bug that I need to fix" in the 4 years since I came back to Twisted, and that's a massive testament to the quality of the software... Chris