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

[Guido van Rossum]

> Someone who is green like me needs the guidance and the mentoring and
> the counsel, and the occasional slap on the wrist.

I hope other python-dev'ers can help you find your way.

> There is a patch that has been unlooked at. It was discussed on c.l.py.,
> some people decided it was a bug, and I was told to make a patch and put
> it on SF. I did. It has been almost two months now, and there has been
> no response. 

It would have been better to ask about the fate of that bug on
python-dev rather than submit a meta-bug report. :-)

> #502080 - BaseHTTPServer send_error bug fix
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=502080&group_id=5470&atid=305470

Hm, that one must've fallen between the cracks.  I've approved it and
assigned it to Skip for commitment.

> And so I was under the impression that the real bugs weren't handled
> at sourceforge, that they were handled somewhere else on some secret
> mailing list or some other older dev site in Pythonlabs. I thought
> only a few eyes were watching. I thought that it really didn't
> matter that much, and so I played games with it.

So now you know the truth. :-)

Keep at it though, and you'll be a release manager before you know
it. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)