Triage Management

Related roles

A separate role (namely, 'Triage Manager') would be assigned to one who actively handles the triage management aspects of data.table. Responsibilities that fall under this specialized role can include, but are not restricted to:

• Tagging new issues appropriately.
• Prioritizing PRs and issues to be worked on with a focus on user needs, breaking changes, and shared concerns amongst the developers and active contributors.
• Cherry-picking features and fixes to include for the release next in line.
• Assisting in issue contributions from new users (such as reducing the length of a supplied reproducible example or making it minimal where possible; could even be a simpler case such as suggesting the use of and to show a reprex if no such examples are provided).
• Re-running the code supplied in regression or bug-oriented issues and commenting on the results achieved (could be potentially useful information, but even if not it helps to validate that the issue indeed exists and is not specific to the author).
• Engagement apart, being actively observant of PRs and issues. This helps to reference former related issues (and these could be related to some other R-package or software used in the toolchain and not specific to data.table, although keep track of data.table's issue tracker here on GitHub is what I'm referring to) for more context or helpful information, and is seen done frequently by ones that are already in the habit.