[Python-Dev] Weekly Python Bug/Patch Summary

[Michael Hudson]

"A.M. Kuchling" <amk at amk.ca> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:22:03AM -0700, Michael Chermside wrote:
>> I don't want to exercise a veto here or anything, but I don't think
>> it would be helpful. The barrier to more participation isn't that people
>> don't know there's work to be done. I suspect that anyone who was going
>
> I disagree.  I think there's a pool of volunteer labour in the Python
> community that we aren't tapping yet.  For example, at the first bug
> day the person who looked at the most bugs was someone who'd never
> done anything with the Python core before (and, AFAICT, hasn't done
> anything since).  In a discussion on that first day, he said
> "... maybe ppl think that the tracker is only for core developers
> etc. I never would have even looked there if it wasn't for today".
> (That was in a discussion about automatically closing bugs once they
> reach a certain age; see the transcript at
> http://www.amk.ca/python/bugday/2004-06-05.html for the context.)
>
> Posting the bug summary may result in people getting an idea of the
> rate at which bugs and patches are processed.  Readers may also see a
> new bug that's relevant to them, and offer debugging assistance or
> commentary.  I can't see how posting the summaries to c.l.py would
> *hurt*.  I say "do it".

This mail expresses my opinions much better than the one I didn't get
around to writing :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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