Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> In fact, are you absolutely positive that you need so much effort to >> maintain an existing bugtracker installation? I know for sure that >> GCC's Bugzilla installation is pretty much on its own; Daniel Berlin >> does some maintainance every once in a while (upgrading when new >> versions are out, applying or writing some patches for most >> requested features in the community, or sutff like that), but it's >> surely not his job, not even part-time. > > Daniel Berlin has put a tremendous amount of work into it. I know, > because I set up the first bug tracker for gcc (using GNATS), and > have been followed the several years of pondering fairly closely. > It was quite some work to set up GNATS, and it was even more work > to setup bugzilla. > > For Python, we don't have any person similar to Daniel Berlin > (actually, we have several who *could* have done similar work, > but none that ever volunteered to do it). Don't underestimate > the work of somebody else.
Martin, I am by no means understimating Daniel's work. I am just noting that the spare-time work he did is, by definition, much much lower than the "6-10 people" that the PSF infrastructure committee is calling for. I would like this statement to be officially reduced to "2-3 people", since it is *really* not required much more than that to setup a bug tracker installation, and no more than 1 person to maintain it afterwards. *IF* there are more volunteers, that's good, they can offload the maintenance work from a single maintainer; but I think it's unfair to put such a high *requisite*. We do not have 6-10 people maintaining SVN afterall, even if you wish we had :) -- Giovanni Bajo
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