[Python-Dev] Small RFEs and the Bug Tracker

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Steve Holden]
 > I appreciate the desire to "keep the issue tracker clean", but I think 
> human intelligence needs to be applied to the task, not just a 
> date-based cutoff.

I concur.  The older bug reports are ones that have survived
past human-based clean-up efforts.  They were left open as
a reminder, as a todo, to await time or decision by a module
author, or it wasn't clear how to solve valid report.

IIRC, there are some for regexes that would take the time
of the one or two people supporting that module and the
request would cover a not urgently needed corner cases
(like handling empty matches or speeding-up badly
designed regexes).  Those bug reports and rfes are
valid and should be left open unless a module author
decides that re's won't support the request.


Raymond