[Distutils] Getting more momentum for pip

[Marcus Smith]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us> wrote:

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>  On 03/05/2015 12:07 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
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> It seems to me that there is another point that delays progress on a
> certain proportion of PRs, specifically feature requests, namely that
> no-one really has that strong an opinion on whether they are a good
> idea or not. I know I've noticed a few requests recently where my
> reaction was essentially "I don't have a problem with this, but I
> don't care enough to actually add it"
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> An "issue before feature request PR" policy might help here.  Before
> someone submits the feature request PR, have them open an issue for
> discussion of the feature.  Recommend/Require that at least one core dev be
> strongly in favor before giving approval to open the PR.  Automatically
> close these issues without the approval after some amount of inactivity.
> Automatically lose any feature request PRs that don't have an approved
> issue associated with them.
>
> Put up an explanation of this policy, sympathy that it may cause
> frustration, but that with limited time, devs must focus their efforts, etc.
>

+1.  good idea.
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