[Python-Dev] No response to posts

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:13:01 -0500
Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

> 2010/8/2 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> >> I'm only referring to the infrastructure when I say "the current
> >> setup." I don't think repeatedly tweaking the tracker is likely to
> >> close more issues.
> >
> > But tweaking the tracker to improve the way we *interact* with
> > potential contributors may get more developers in the long run, as
> > well as closing more issues. Currently, if a bug doesn't get responded
> > to immediately by people monitoring the bugs list, then there's no
> > easy way to go back and query "hey, are there any bugs nobody has even
> > looked at yet?". All this discussion is about is acknowledging that
> > that is something we should try to keep under control by listing them
> > in the weekly summary and by making them easy to look up.
> 
> Well, I just feel like we keep changing things to little result,
> creating an organic mess of fields and statuses. Adding more queries
> is fine, but let's not bow to the temptation to add more fields.

FWIW, I completely agree with Benjamin.

Regards

Antoine.