500 tracker orphans; we need more reviewers

[Mark Lawrence]

On 19/06/2010 03:37, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Go to the bottom of
> http://bugs.python.org/issue?@template=search&status=1
> enter 1 in the Message Count box and hit Search.
>
> At the moment, this gets 510 hits. Some have had headers updated, nearly
> half have had a person add himself as 'nosy' (put 1 in the Nosy count
> box to count those that have not), but none have a written response.
>
> In the past two weeks, I have commented on some old orphans and gotten a
> couple of previously orphaned patches applied and the issue closed. But
> I am not prepared to spend my whole life on this ;=).
>
> We need more issue reviewers.
> Clearly.
> If you want to contibute, opportunity is here.
> With 500 orphans, and 2200 other open issues,
> there must be something that matches your interests and abilities.
> Use other search fields to narrow the choices.
>
> If you want to contibute to the tracker, this may help:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/TrackerDocs/
> Then read examples of comments already there.
>
> Or consider my first-response comment to
> http://bugs.python.org/issue8990
>
> To write that, I
>
> * verified the reported behavior, though I forgot to explicitly say so;
> when doing so, include version and system (such as 3.1.2, WinXP), as
> that is sometimes helpful.
>
> * read the relevant doc section and pasted it in to establish a basis
> for discussion (the OP might have done that, but did not, so I did).
>
> Everyone reading this should at least be able to do this much for an
> issue like this, and this much *is* helpful.
>
> * compared behavior and doc and concluded that there is a bug.
>
> * read the posted patch as best I could, which is not much in this case,
> but it at least looked like a real diff file.
>
> * noticed that the diff did *not* patch the appropriate unit test file.
>
> * discussed two possible fixes and identified which the OP choose.
>
> * wrote an 'executive summary' both for the OP and future reviewers.
>
> Oh yes, I also adjusted the headers. Although new reviewers cannot do
> that, you *can* suggest in the message what changes to make.
>
> Special offer to readers of this thread, especially new reviewers:
> if you make such a suggestion, you may email me, subject: Tracker, with
> one clickable link like the above, cut and pasted from the browser URL
> box, per line of the message.
>
> Perhaps you are shy and uncomfortable saying much. Well so was I. I
> started about 5 years ago with *safe* comments and have s l o w l y
> expanded my comfort zone. The shock of discovering this week that there
> are 500 orphans, some 2 years old, expanded it. After no response for a
> year or two, even an imperfect response must be better than nothing.
>
> While there is occasional negativity on the tracker, I believe it
> averages less per message than python-list, which itself is pretty decent.
>
> Terry Jan Reedy
>

Ok, but I'm going for EAFP rather than LBYL.  I have written a will. :)

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.