[Tracker-discuss] Feature/Change request handling procedure

Erik Forsberg forsberg at efod.se
Thu Nov 16 07:14:29 CET 2006


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Erik Forsberg <forsberg at efod.se> writes:

> http://www.python.org/dev/process/ tells me that there is an "informal
> voting process" that is sometimes followed on python-dev. Perhaps we
> could use some variant on this. Here's a proposed way to handle
> feature/change requests:

>
> 1) Feature/change requests must be added to the meta tracker. The
>    priority should be set to 'wish'.
>
>    (We might want to setup a detector that sends this list a mail
>    whenever there's a new issue, and when there's a comment added)
>
> 2) Once it's in the meta tracker, let's discuss it, by making comments
>    in the tracker. If someone has really good arguments on why a
>    specific issue should be implemented before going live, here's the
>    chance to publish them in a structured manner.
>
> 3) After a short period of discussion, let members of python-dev vote
>    using the protocol outlined in
>    http://www.python.org/dev/process/. This can also be done by adding
>    comments to the tracker.
>
> 4) Issues that get many +1 and few -1 can be moved up to priority
>    "bug", which means "must be implemented before christmas, ehm.. I
>    mean before going live"
>
>    Issues that get a few +1, few -1 and mostly +/-0 can be moved up to
>    priority "feature" which means "good idea, but let's wait and do it
>    later".
>
> Does this sound like a good or bad idea? Other ideas on how to handle
> this problem? Is it a problem at all, or should I just cut that blue
> hair? :)

Any comments from the rest of the tracker team? Michael? Stefan? Paul?

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