[python-committers] bugs.python.org, job status, and contributors (aka not core devs)

[Terry Reedy]

 > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016, 09:40 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us
 > <mailto:ethan at stoneleaf.us>> wrote:
 >
 >>  Question:  I noticed a couple issues on b.p.o that were being
 >> closed by contributors (not core-devs, not their own issues).

 >> Should non-core-devs be closing issues that do not belong to them?

On 6/6/2016 1:17 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> Some non-core devs have elevated privileges on the tracker to help with
> issue triage.

I believe that only originators, coredevs, and triagers can close, but 
not random others.  I was a triager before being promoted.

I have wondered whether triagers should have a symbol after their name 
-- perhaps &.

tjr