Hi folks -- We have a chronic problem: our new ticket review queue. We get roughly 50 new tickets each week, and we typically don't keep up with this flow very well. Eventually, someone (Hi, Russ!) takes it on himself to review the massive backlog, but that's damned painful.
Right now we only have 60 unreviewed tickets in the queue, so now's a great time to get on top of this problem for once and for all. Everyone on this list is qualified to help. Please read on to see how, and the "prize" bit is at the bottom. For the most part, reviewing these types tickets is an easy process. Reviewers need to do the following: * Verify that the reported problem is actually a bug or feature request. Sometimes people end up at the ticket system when they should be asking for help on django-users, so they need to be pointed in that direction. Other times there's not enough information on the ticket to reproduce it. But most of the time, it's really a bug or feature request, and a quick comment saying "I can confirm this is a bug" *really* helps when it comes time to try to fix the problem. * Make sure the ticket's not a duplicate by searching the tracker for existing tickets of the same nature. * Make sure the metadata (ticket type, component, etc.) is correct. * Move the ticket along the process (probably into into the "accepted" or "design decision" stages). It takes me about 5 minutes to review most unreviewed tickets. A few take longer, but most are pretty quick. Again, this is totally something anyone here can do. Yeah, you might run into a ticket you just don't get, and it's fine to skip in and move along. Remember that there's help in IRC (#django-dev) nearly all the time, though. Of course, I'd be lying if I said that this was a whole lot of fun, so here's where the prize bit comes in: Starting right now, I'm offering a 5-for-1 deal on reviews. If you have a ticket, patch, or feature request that you'd like *me* to review, simply review 5 unreviewed tickets then post your review request on this list with "[5-for-1]" in the subject. I'll prioritize *your* request the next time I work on Django. Of course, I encourage other core developers, and anyone else who's capable, to join me in prioritizing these "5-for-1" requests, but this isn't a BDFL action or anything -- just my way of trying to keep the unreviewed queue as low as possible. Jacob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
