[python-committers] OK to back-fill "awaiting" labels on open issues?

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 at 15:50 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 10/6/2017 5:29 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > I noticed today that out of about 19 pages of issues, only the first 5
> > have "awaiting" labels. Would people object if I back-filled those open
> > issues lacking an "awaiting" label? For those that have a "changes
> > requested" review a comment that said roughly "we noticed there's a
> > review asking for changes; if you already did that then let us know by
> > saying 'I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition' and we will update this
> > pull request accordingly" (the other stages don't have potential
> > false-positives).
> >
> > The reason I'm asking before coding this up and running it is there will
> > be some churn in notifications for those issues that get a comment about
> > "awaiting changes".
>
> Could you do, for instance, a page a day, so people are less likely to
> be overwhelmed by (and ignore) a big batch?
>

Yes, the work could be smeared across multiple days.
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