[Python-Dev] Goals for patch selection for 2.1.2

[Anthony Baxter]

> Remember you are Patch Czar, not the slave of patches. You could
> restrict yourself to incorporate only patches that people propose.

Heh. No, the problem at this point as far as making estimates go is
even knowing a vague idea of how much there is to do.

> If you want systematic scanning, we could try to come up with a script
> that automatically reviews all commit messages of patches since 2.1.1
> whether these mention an SF bug. We could then further automate
> scanning to produce the number of changed lines, to exclude 'large'
> changes.

Hrm. That might be an idea - at the moment I've got the trunk and the 
2.1 branch checked out in parallel directories, and have a teeny zsh
alias to do diffs and look at the tree. I'm then checking the commit 
logs since the 2.1 branch to see the diffs.

> Perhaps anybody in the readership of this software already has code
> that does such things?

We can hope... 


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