[Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Steve Holden writes:

 > Yes, in the last year in particular there has been some excellent effort
 > of maintaining the issue tracker content. But the question still remains
 > - who are we worried about offending?

In this thread, we did worry about offending Sean and dangerjim.  Now
that Sean has commented, I don't think anybody is worrying about
offending anybody; there is an understanding that there's a process
issue to be resolved.  The question is how best to build the community.

There are two camps, the quantity camp ("low cost of contribution
means more contributors, and that's good"), and the quality camp
("more interaction within the community, especially of experienced
developers with newcomers, means more effective contributors and
that's good").

 > I didn't realize we had so much effort available that we can ignore
 > such offers.

Steve, calm down; nobody contributing to the thread is ignoring the
offer, and the status quo terms seem to be acceptable to both Sean
and dangerjim.  They correctly asked for more privilege so that the
proposed work can be done more efficiently.  Equally correctly, there
is a discussion of whether an exception to past practice should be
made here, and whether it's worth changing that past practice.

I find RDM's argument quite compelling, that the current policy does
impose some costs on the newcomer and the mentor, but that on the
other hand it does strongly encourage interactions which both build
community in the sense of interpersonal relationships and improve the
mentoring process for the actual work being done.  He concludes that
the small costs involved (including the possibility of discouraging
some potential contributors) are more than compensated for by the
quality of the product.  Where do you disagree with that logic?

 > To make it clear: this is not intended as a criticism of you
 > personally, rather of those who do not seem to feel that increasing
 > the developer community is important. Perhaps diversity is just
 > something you write in a statement.

*By definition*, a community is not diverse in the most fundamental
sense.  As long as Pythonicity is important to Python, there is danger
as well as opportunity in more rapid influx of newcomers.