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

[Michael Hudson]

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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