On Aug 17, 4:26 am, Ivan Andrus <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:51 PM, kcrisman wrote:
>
> >>> If the owner forgot about the ticket (holidays and stuff), I think it
> >>> is perfectly fine if the author him- or herself asks on one of the
> >>> sage lists (probably sage-devel is a good choice, or a specialised
> >>> list if that exists for the given topic).
>
> > I think that "owner" is little more than a random name of someone who
> > has asked to receive notifications about this type of ticket.
>
> Oops.  I usually make myself owner of tickets that I am working on, mostly 
> because that's how we did it where I used to work.

Oh, that's different!  You can totally do that.  I just mean that
there is always a "default" owner of a ticket, depending on its
component.

> > I don't think you should blame yourself.  I think there is a lot more
> > ownership of Sage by people other than William Stein now, which is
> > very positive.  However, that said, having his energy is very
> > helpful :)
>
> > There's also the issue of people not having as much time to review as
> > before?   We definitely need more reviewers in the mix.
>
> Another trick is to review someone else's ticket and then ask them to review 
> yours.  e.g. kcrisman has reviewed so many of my tickets that I would be 
> obliged to review anything he asked me to (assuming I were competent to do so 
> of course).  Unfortunately, I can't help with probability distributions, or I 
> would ask you to review some of mine :-)
>
> -Ivan
>
> P.S. kcrisman, I've been planning to work on 8473, but can't seem to find the 
> time.  Thanks for your patience.

No problem - I'm excited about it, though.  The double-click has been
much requested, as you are well aware.

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