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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Lennart Regebro writes:

 > > Sure, but that's still *work*, and it's work for *somebody else*.
 > 
 > Yes, but only when the checkin was wrong. For all other checkins, it's
 > *less* work. Hence, a committer needs to basically fudge up every
 > second checkin to cause more work than he relieves work. :)

Counting checkins is not the appropriate way to measure work here, and
there are externalities.  In my experience (in other projects, I
suspect it applies to Python, too), most patches produced by newcomers
scratch very personal itches that almost nobody else cares about.
Many of their bugs, however, affect a large number of users.

Similarly, but much less seriously, I suspect that issue triage by
newcomers will not result in very "Pythonic" decisions.  I won't say
that setting priority or assignee inappropriately "fucks things up",
but they do increase entropy of the project.  Terry Reedy disagreed
with Sean's judgment about setting priority and assignee, a useful
discussion that would *not* have happened with the policy you propose.

It might be preferable for that discussion to have happened on the
tracker-discuss list, of course, but IMHO it's good for such threads
to happen somewhere that tracker workers can see it.