[Distutils] Getting more momentum for pip

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

Triaging the issues would help. If, say, I'd like to help it's very
discouraging to look in a bug tracker and not be able to filter down on
what's interesting or important.

Some ideas for triaging goals:

* clear labels for issues that the maintainers want to be fixed (eg: if you
fix it you'd get quick feedback as a maintainer is interested in that
issue).
* clear labels for issues that need discussions, have design issue etc
(blocked issues IOW).
* clear labels for what's a bug or feature.
* clear labels for features that would be accepted but no maintainer has
time or is interested in (the "nice to have" issues).

Currently there are no labels at all for any issue or PR.


Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I guess my suggestions boil down to:
>
>>
>> - Add more humans
>> - Add more money to make humans more efficient
>> - Add more computer automation
>>
>
>
> maybe agree to always maintain < X open issues and < Y open PRs, before
> adding features.
> where x can vary as needed, but for starters, x=250, and y=25 sounds
> reasonable.
> this would:
>   - force more work on issue and PR backlog
>   - force making the tough decisions on whether something is realistically
> going to be worked on and closing it
>   - force closing issues that are not getting the responses needed to
> actually work the problem.
>   - would more likely cycle in new folks to become committers.
>
>
>
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