[python-committers] Requirements to get the "bug triage" permission?

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:54:50 +0100, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I identified some active contributors and I would like to offer them
> to get the "bug triage" permission. What's the requirements to give
> such permissions to someone?

Currently it is "someone with the power to do it decides to give it out".
Should we have more detailed/conscious requirements?  Perhaps so.

> IMHO the requirements are quite low:
> 
> * at least one commit merged in Python
> * signed the CLA

I have never looked for either of these when giving out triage.  I can
see that having signed the CLA is probably a good idea, but I see no
reason to have getting a patch merged be a requirement.

> * be nice and respectful
> * don't close a bug if it's not well understood to not "loose"
> information (closed bugs are ignored in search by default, and hidden
> from the main page).

Personally my criteria is heavy on "be nice and respectful", coupled
with observing that they have posted comments on issue that demonstrate
an understanding of our code culture...specifically, commenting that a bug
should be closed (and why) and I agree with them, and demonstrating an
understanding of what python versions a bug applies to (enhancement
versus bug fix, when to backport a bug fix and when not).

How it generally works for me is that I think, "this person knows
what they are talking about, they ought to be able to close this issue
themselves instead of my having to do it for them".  Then I pull up a
list of all the issues they are nosy on, and look at their comments to
see if they are consistently polite and respectful, know what they are
talking about, and explain their reasoning well.  If I don't see any
red flags, I give them triage.

> Did it happen in the past that we removed the bug triage permission to
> someone who abused this power?

Only once that I'm aware of.

> Maybe we can give some guide lines on how to behave on the bug tracker?

Enhance the bug triage section of the devguide, by all means :)

--David