[Distutils] Getting more momentum for pip

[Paul Moore]

On 5 March 2015 at 19:53, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> Hmm, that's a problem - but yes, even if they can only add comments,
>> saying "Please close as unreproducible", "Duplicate of XXX", "Please
>> add label YYY" would be helpful. The committers could trawl such
>> comments occasionally and action them.
>
> I personally get emails for every issue, closing duplicates or adding
> labels and such is something that takes 15 seconds to do if someone leaves
> a comment like that.

Ditto. The only real slowdown is considering whether I trust the
opinion of whoever added the comment. And as people contribute more,
that becomes progressively easier.

> Another option is to move our issue tracker off of
> Github into something else that supports non-committers being able to
> manage the issue tracker. Empowering non core to do more things is another
> thing that would be useful and requires someone to take the time to figure
> out how we can best do that (switch away from GH issues? To What?) and then
> actually do the work to make it happen (create salt states to deploy, create
> scripts to migrate etc).

The python core has a system of people getting tracker privileges that
mean that they can and do have a group of people who contribute via
issue triage, reviews, etc. Many such people graduate to becoming core
developers, and those that don't still provide a hugely valuable
service.

It's a shame github doesn't have a way for us to do that, but of
course setting up an alternative tracker would be yet another drain on
our limited developer resources.

Paul