[Python-Dev] I'm not getting email from SF when assigned abug/patch

[Brett Cannon]

On 3/30/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> > Same here.  Please move any more comments about infrastructure to the
> > infrastructure list (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure/).  But
> > do realize the committee is not discussing trackers yet.  We are still
> > trying to get our SF data out so that can be imported into a tracker
> > to test its use
>
> oh, I forgot that the Procrastination & Stop energy Foundation was involved
> in this.
>

Fredrik, if you would like to help move this all forward, great; I
would appreciate the help.  You can write a page scraper to get the
data out of SF if you don't believe SF will cooperate fast enough for
your tastes or I am giving them too long to try to fix things on their
end (I don't expect they will fix things fast enough either, but
because of school ending soon I don't have time right now to start
working on a scraper myself plus I am willing to give them a little
time to try to fix the XML export so we can minimize headaches on our
end).

If you would rather contribute by collecting a list of possible
trackers along with who will maintain it, then please do.  I am not
going to dive into that quite yet, but if you want to parallelize the
work needed then I would appreciate the help.  The tracker will need
to be able to import the SF data somehow (probably will require a
custom tool so the volunteers need to be aware of this), be able to
export data (so we can back it up on a regular basis so we don't have
to go through this again), and an email interface for at least
replying to tracker items.  A community-wide announcement will
probably be needed to get a good group of volunteers together for any
one non-commercial tracker.

But I am not procrastinating.  I don't think I have ever come off as a
procrastinator on this list and I don't think I deserve the label.  I
am not putting more time in now because I am near the end of term here
at school and thus passing my courses takes precendent over a new bug
tracker.  I ended up the chairman at the infrastructure committee
during one of my busiest school terms I have ever had.  But I will see
this through and it will be done in a timely manner.

-Brett