On Dec 6, 2017, at 12:45, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Depends on what you exactly mean with "award". > Contributors might want to be able to edit more fields on the tracker, > and the triage bit allows them to do it. This is beneficial for both > the contributor and the other triagers, since they have one more > helping hand. If the contributor knows what they are doing and they > are helpful, we can "award" them with the triager bit, but this award > shouldn't be given for unrelated accomplishments. > Becoming a triager is a step to becoming a committer: we bestow them > with some responsibility and trust, and if they do well, we can give > them even more with the committer bit.
In general, I agree with David's and Ezio's comments, in particular the idea that "bug triage" should not be an "award" nor a necessary first step towards being a committer. I think the skills necessary to be a good bug triager are not the same as being a good core developer. While the skill sets and experience level needed can overlap, I think we should consider the two roles as separate "career paths". In other words, some people would do a fine job as triager without wanting to be a core developer or contributing their own code patches, and that's fine. -- Ned Deily n...@python.org -- [] _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
