On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:12:52 +0100, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I asked them to ask me to double check before merging a pull request > (Julien) or closing a bug (Cheryl and Sanyam).
When I have promoted people to triage in the past I have not had them check with me before making changes, but instead simply encouraged them to ask me questions if they had doubts. I base this on the advice I was given my Martin von Loewis when he gave me triage privileges however many years ago it was. He said (paraphrased) "Don't be afraid to use this power. It is worse to to be tentative and not do the work than it is to do the work and make mistakes. All tracker changes are reversible, so don't be afraid to make changes." The point is, in Martin's judgement (and I have had no reason to doubt it in the years that have followed) is that it is a far more common problem for newly promoted people to be afraid to screw up than it is for someone to go rogue and not listen when communicated with. In my experience the latter has happened only once, and we have a lot of people with triage privileges. --David _______________________________________________ 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/
