contributing.txt is not specific enought about Triaging

[Marc Fargas]

There are some points missed in the triaging section of contributing.txt, those points can lead to things like:

• #2415, when a ticket was closed as wontfix.
• #689, comment 22
• #399, which even added a discusion.

We have threads asking for clarification also like ​this one.

So I'm trying to take some bits out of this thread and clarify contributing.txt a bit.

I just opened this ticket so anybody knows I'm working on it! ;)

[Marc Fargas]

The third role

[Marc Fargas]

Done it, I took most of the things from django-developers group.

mostly I've created a "third role" making a clear distinction between a Trusted Triager (one officially recognised) and a Community Triager (one that helps out triaging sometimes to keep the tracker clean).

On this new role I added the points in which those should be careful, stating the differences between being a triager with a "proven criteria" and one "still proving criteria".

Hope this helps out volunteers who want to triage bugs.

[Marc Fargas]

not perfect but should give a visual idea of the patch.

[Chris Beaven]

Thanks for the work telenieko - this is a necessary clarification. Perhaps just "community members" rather than "community triagers"

I'd like to get some opinions on this from the core crew, so could you bring this up in django-dev please?

(for example, I'm not sure community members should ever be pushing the triage stage past a design decision)

[Marc Fargas]

New patch

[Marc Fargas]

Brought in some changes recommended by SmileyChris and Russell Keith-Magee, that makes unnecessary the change of djangotickets.png.

Also, discussion has been brought to django-developers in ​this thread

[edgarsj]

Marking ready for checkin as discussed at the end of this django-developers ​thread.

[Marc Fargas]

Replying to edgarsj:

Marking ready for checkin as discussed at the end of this django-developers ​thread.

Nice!!!!!!!
Commiter: NOTE that the attached .png image does not need to be commited, the latest patch made it unnecesary.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

(In [7632]) Fixed #6320 -- Clarified a few issues in the contribution docs surrounding the triage process. Thanks to telenieko, Edgars Jekabsons and Marc Fargas for their input.