[Python-Dev] SoC proposal: "fix some old, old bugs in sourceforge"

Tue Apr 25 01:08:29 CEST 2006

"Alan McIntyre" <alan.mcintyre at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:444CFD14.70601 at gmail.com...
> Hi all,
>> I would like to participate in the Summer of Code as a student. At the
> moment it looks like the Python tracker on SF has about 2100 open bugs
> and patches, going back to late 2000.

The latest weekly tracker summary says about 1300, + 200 RFEs. Still too 
many.
> I'm assuming that a fair number
> of these are no longer be applicable, have been fixed/implemented
> already, etc., and somebody just needs to slog through the list and
> figure out what to do with them.

I suspect so too, and plan to at least recheck some that I have reviewed.
> My unglamorous proposal is to review bugs & patches (starting with the
> oldest) and resolve at least 200 of them.

Funny, and nice!, that you should propose this. I thought of adding 
something like this to the Python wiki as something I might mentor, but 
hesitated because reviewing *is* not glamourous, because Google wants 
code-writing projects, and because I am not one to mentor C code writing.
> Is that too much?

To review and close things that don't need a fix or are obsolete, no. To 
write code and fix, go with the response from someone who has done such.
The thing I worry about, besides you or whoever getting too bored after a 
week, is that a batch of 50-100 nice new patches could then sit unreviewed 
on the patch tracker along with those already there.
Terry Jan Reedy