[Python-Dev] Tracker cleanup report

[Daniel (ajax) Diniz]

Paul Moore wrote:
> 2009/2/16 Daniel (ajax) Diniz <ajaksu at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> Here's a summary of what's been accomplished and what's almost done.
>> This kinda marks the end of this Bug Season for me, but I'd like to do
>> at least one more installment before PyCon.
>
> Can I, for one, offer a *huge* round of applause for what you've
> achieved. It's great to see the tracker getting some serious
> attention.

Thank you, but I can only take a small part of the kudos. It's been a
collective work, involving from the BDFL to issue reporters. Also,
lots of people have been taking care of the tracker.

Notably, Christian Heimes has done a lot of cleanup and updating in
early 2008, Facundo did the same earlier (2005, IIRC) and Benjamin
went through a lot of tickets during the 2.6/3.0 release cycle.

Martin, Benjamin, Victor and Hirokazu have spent a lot of time tidying
things up lately, and some nice fellows like Antoine, Mark, Nick
Coghlan, Amaury, and most cited above are constantly reviewing tickets
and offering feedback. Some people help fighting spam (e.g. Skip,
IIRC). Brett is hors concours regarding time spent for any
Python-related effort, so I won't mention him :D

There's also those recently organizing tickets in their area of
interest: Tarek is on top of distutils issues with lots of help from
Akira Kitada, Georg even has auto-assignment for doc issues, Jesse
Noller with multiprocessing, etc. Of course, this has always happened
to some degree, so lots of people have done that in the past, then
reduced their level of tracker-handling activity, are now back and
helping with lots of issues, e.g. Jack Jansen and Ronald Oussoren.

These are all from the top of my head, from diving into hundreds of
reports and following the tracker activity. Lots of other people I
fail to mention have taken the task of dealing with tickets for
themselves.

So kudos to everyone that invest time handling bugs, feature requests,
janitorial tasks and the eventual PEBKAC.

Thanks for the support!
Cheers,
Daniel