[Python-Dev] tracker status options

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 at 22:41, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> If the person doing the triage has made a final call, the issue can
> enter the next stage. There should never be debate on the tracker, IMO
> (although there often is). It might be that people disagree with a
> triage, then they should appeal to python-dev, not on the issue itself.
> It might be that they think the reviewer misunderstood the issue,
> then they should clarify, and the reviewer should revert the status.

OK, so given this then I revise the way I understand what is happening
in the ticket I'm looking at: a reviewer has said "this patch needs
work" and the submitter has not responded.  Since the behavior has been
accepted as a valid bug this means...I can either work on the patch, or
post a message asking if the submitter wants to either revise the patch
or discuss it on python-dev.  In the latter case if the submitter does
not respond, then the issue continues to languish.  IMO it shouldn't be
closed, because it really is a bug.

Does this match what you would expect a reviewer to do?  (A person
really doing triage would of course not work on the patch themselves :)

> IMO, the reviewer should *always* take action, either by asking for
> more information, or by advancing the issue to the next stage.
>
>> Did I guess correctly that the process for "recommending rejection"
>> is to set the stage to 'commit/reject', the resolution to 'invalid'
>> (or whatever is appropriate) and the status to 'pending'?  That
>> seemed to work for the issue I did it to, in that someone came
>> along and closed it shortly after that.
>
> If you have permission to do so, you should just close the issue
> (in that manner). If you don't have permission, you can leave a message
> saying "I recommend to close the issue".
>
> If you are unsure, you can set it to Pending, and ask for help on
> python-dev. In that case, you haven't actually done triage, but merely
> considered it, and determined that it looks too difficult.

OK, so I guess I've been given more power than I was expecting, and I'll
just have to step up the bar and learn to use it appropriately :)

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