[python-committers] My cavalier and aggressive manner, API change and bugs introduced for basically zero benefit

[Paul Moore]

On 22 January 2017 at 21:59, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:
>
>>I've been on the sidelines for a while myself for a number of reasons,
>>but the shift to GitHub will pull me back in for sure, at least in
>>terms of code review. I look forward to actually contributing code
>>again soon, but easier tooling on reviews—rather, a shiny new one, as
>>I'm aware of Reitveld—is enough of a carrot to bring me back in.
>
> I feel exactly the same way.  I'm very excited about the move to git and
> GitHub and look forward to ramping my contributions back up.  Thank you Brett
> and everyone else working so hard to make this as smooth and timely a
> transition as possible.

One question (and apologies if this has been discussed on another list
somewhere) - my biggest bottleneck is the sheer number of python-bugs
emails, and the difficulty of identifying ones I can contribute. Will
we be moving to the github issue tracker, and/or are there any likely
changes to more closely classify issues (ideally in a way that can be
handled via mail filters)? Specifically, I'm interested in being able
to restrict issue traffic by:

* Pure Python, C, or "not code" (docs, etc).
* Windows/Unix
* Relevant stdlib module

(Or at least have some means of scanning issue emails to quickly spot
which ones fall into which classification).

That's a long way beyond simply "switching to github which is a
workflow I'm more familiar with" and while I hope github will help me
to contribute more, I do think that ultimately the issue is simply
that Python is a large and complex system, and people like me have
limited time - and too much of it gets wasted playing "spot something
I can work on", but that's inherent in the nature of a system this
size.

Paul

PS I know there's searches and labels. But the "push" nature of email
has its own benefits for me, so there's still a trade off there.