[Python-Dev] tracker status options

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

Hi Ron,

Good flowchart.

Cheers,
-T

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

>
>
> Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm continuing to (slowly) work through issues. I have been looking
>> particularly at a lot of the open issues regarding strftime.
>>
>> It would be great to put in some of those extra status options that were
>> discussed recently...
>>
>>   "Open/New"
>>   "Needs help / Chatting"
>>   "Under development"
>>   "Pending feedback"
>>   "Closed"
>>
>> For everyone's reference, after some debate, the above list of status
>> options was where the conversation finished. So the two options "Needs help
>> / chatting" and "Under development" would need to be added. Issues that are
>> "Under development" should revert to "Needs help / chatting" after a month
>> of inactivity.
>>
>> Would it be possible to get these put in? Maybe I'm one of a small number
>> of people who are nibbling at the bottom end of the bugs, but I find it
>> somewhat frustrating not to be able to classify the issues that I find into
>> "needs help / chatting" vs "under development" to help make more sense of
>> the search results.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -T
>>
>
>
>
> Maybe a flow chart can help unambiguize things a bit.  What follows is
> maybe one starting place.  I tried to separate steps that might be done by
> users from developers so that there is a clear order to the process.  This
> seems to follow the general way that python issues are resolved from what
> I've observed.
>
> While this chart separates the descriptive/brain storming and patch making
> parts of an issue, in actuality, a patch (tests, fix, and docs) can be
> developed partially or fully in the discussion faze for the purpose of
> helping the discussion, then later reused and fine tuned in the patch making
> faze.
>
> Hope this is helpful and doesn't get too mangled in sending.
>
>    (new issue)
>        |
>        v
>
>    [discuss issue] <-------------------------+
>        |                                     |
>        v                                     |
>                                              |
>    {request issue review}                    |
>        |                                     |
>        v                                     |
>                                              |
>    <invalid issue ?> (yes)--> [close issue]  |
>       (no)                        |          |
>        |                          v          |
>        |                       (closed)      |
>        v                                     |
>                                              |
>    <valid issue ?> (no)----------------------+
>      (yes)
>        |
>        v
>
>    [develop patch]  <------+
>        |                   |
>        v                   |
>                            |
>    {request patch review}  |
>        |                   |
>        v                   |
>                            |
>    <patch ready ?> (no) ---+
>      (yes)
>        |
>        v
>
>    [apply patch]
>        |
>        v
>
>    [close issue]
>        |
>        v
>
>    (closed)
>
>
>
>


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