[stdlib-sig] MISC/maintainers.txt anyone?

[Georg Brandl]

M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>>> Having a table in the official docs at least gives people an idea who
>>> to +noisy on bugs. How many multiprocessing bugs have you had to
>>> reassign, or even *add* me to because people outside of our group
>>> don't know?
> 
> As general note: I have the impression that the noisy list feature
> of the bug tracker is not exactly ideal to get attention for certain
> bugs from the right people.
> 
> Perhaps it's better to just ask the various developers to setup
> email filters for this purpose; or maybe in addition to using the
> noisy lists.
> 
> I've done that and while it's not perfect, it works a lot better than
> relying on someone putting me on e.g. the platform.py-related ticket
> noisy list.

That's why at PyCon (or was it Europython?) we thought about a "tags"
field for issues.  The main use for tags would be module names (and
it should be advertised as such in the UI for submitting bugs)
with auto-nosy associations for module maintainers.

(I don't want to call it "module name" because I could envision other
useful tags as well.)

>> Hey, I got another idea! What about we simply add a second set of docs, for
>> developers?
>> 
>> We have lots of information scattered throughout the website, the source
>> and the heads of important people (the most volatile sort), that, put
>> together, should make a nice set of docs that could be collected (and made
>> a sphinx tree).
> 
> Wouldn't a developer wiki (readable for everyone, writable only
> for developers) be a better and more direct way to handle this ?

The source would be in the repo, so that's already writable for all
developers (without them having to sign up to just *another* system,
with another password etc.), and for the public an automated regular
build, like I suggested in response to Laura, would be even nicer
than a read-only wiki.

Georg

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