On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:35 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 10 June 2013 06:04, Alex Clark <acl...@aclark.net> wrote: > > Donald Stufft <donald <at> stufft.io> writes: > > > >> So yes. I broke Download counts because they were not more important than > >> people being able to actually use PyPI to install from. > > > > > > FWIW: > > > > > > You missed the moral of the story: when you make a decision like this, > > someone will *always* disagree with you (even over the most trivial things). > > And even if they don't, they may disagree with your approach (e.g. why not > > sort problems with download counts before enabling the CDN) So the only way > > to make everyone happy is to consider everyone who will be affected by your > > actions, before you take action. > > And, indeed, we plan to run future changes of this magnitude through > the PEP process for exactly this reason. We can't promise not to break > some features in order to achieve gains we think are worth the loss, > but we *can* promise not to break such features without advance > warning and explicit consideration of alternatives that may allow us > to avoid the breakage in the first place.
Nick, i welcome this intention but could you now and in the future be explicit about who "we" is? It's not even obvious to me and i have written a recent PEP in this area and am following most of the mails here for a while, also participating in some actions behind the scene. thanks, holger _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
