[Python-Dev] Moving bugs and patches through the pipeline more quickly

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> When something's assigned to you, you get an email.  Isn't that
> enough?  Jeremy has a script to send out reminders to everyone that he
> used to run weekly, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the
> speed with which people look at bugs.

I think a "new bugs&patches this week" email wouldn't hurt.  Perhaps
just "new patches", actually -- as Martin pointed out, these are
probably more important.  Plus there are less of them, which is no bad
thing.

Cheers,
M.

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