[Python-Dev] Moving bugs and patches through the pipeline more quickly

07 Mar 2002 15:15:29 +0000

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
> > I think a "new bugs&patches this week" email wouldn't hurt. Perhaps
> > just "new patches", actually -- as Martin pointed out, these are
> > probably more important. Plus there are less of them, which is no bad
> > thing.
>> Ah, the "new this week" makes this interesting and different from what
> we have. I would definitely like to see both new bugs & patches.
>> I can imagine some more features:
>> - resolved items this week (good for morale, assuming it's a number > 0)

I think it usually will be.
> - active items (items that had at least one comment added or other
> status change)
>> - comatose items (items with exceptionally long inactivity)

There may be rather a lot of these :(
> - unassigned items

Ditto :(
> - new unassigned items with no comments added (those are the ones that
> need triage most dearly)

How would one implement this? A screen-scraper? Does someone have
one already written?
Cheers,
M.
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