[Python-Dev] Issues with process and discussions (Re: Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr)

[C. Titus Brown]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:03:22AM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
-> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
-> ...
-> > I could still argue that there are downsides (need to take action to
-> > set myself as nosy on an issue, possibly setting up a new mail filter,
-> > housekeeping cruft, the fact that people don't quote in the same way
-> > on tracker items) that make tracker discussions less attractive to me,
-> > but it's very personal things.
-> 
-> How hard would it be to set up a bot that will subscribe to python-dev
-> and archive messages that have [issueXXXX] in the subject under
-> appropriate roundup ticket?  This way if discussion started on
-> roundup, it would only take adding python-dev in CC to bring it to the
-> larger python-dev audience and adding issue number to the python-dev
-> thread subject will be all it takes to archive new messages on
-> roundup.  This would not solve a problem of linking threads that start
-> on python-dev before a ticket is opened, but with some proper
-> conventions this problem can be solved as well.

In my experience this kind automated stuff is too fragile to work
reliably & specifically over time, which is what we would want -- "fire
and forget".

Is there a good python-dev archive search mechanism (other than to
google "python-dev <term>" ;) out there?  Wouldn't that help?

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu