On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Michael Foord > <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> On 06/01/2010 11:19, Chris Withers wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Is there a high volume of incoming bugs to the Python tracker? >>> If so, I'd like to help with triaging. I think I have all the necessary >>> access, what I'm missing is the knowledge of how to set myself up to get >>> notifications of new bugs... >>> >>> How do I do that? >>> >> >> Bug triaging is one of Python's "big needs" and anything you do to help on >> this score would be much appreciated. Particularly reviewing new and >> outstanding issues. > > Another useful triage I think, is to review the oldest bugs (some of > them are > 5 years) > and remove the ones that are not relevant anymore, or duplicate with > newer entries.
I was actually thinking about that the other day when I saw that the average age of bugs on the Python tracker was at some hideously large 3 digit number. The 'success' statistic would be to bring that down below, say, 100. S _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
