#8162: Increase Permission.name max_length
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Reporter: juliae | Owner: wilsoniya
Type: Bug | Status: assigned
Component: contrib.auth | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: schemamigration | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by russellm):
@tomek Continuing your analogy - you're assuming we're talking about a
wheel on a car. My interpretation - and my comment - are pointing out that
we're *not* talking about a *wheel* on this car.
A wheel is an essential feature of a car, and the car is useless without
it. We have ample evidence to suggest that the problem isn't that serious.
What we're talking about the fact that the radiator cap on this car is
prone to leakage when you use the car as an endurance racer. *Most* owners
won't notice or care about the problem. However, there is a portion of the
population that *will* notice, and they are understandably concerned. We
acknowledge that this problem exists, but due to our manufacturing
process, the problem isn't easy for us to fix. If you're affected by this
problem, you can always go down the street to the endurance racing supply
depot and get a custom radiator cap that won't have the problem. And when
we move to our new factory, we'll be able to fix the problem permanently.
If we were a well funded project with resources to burn, then we might
have addressed this a lot sooner. However, as it stands, we're dependent
on the contributions of volunteers. And given that only a small proportion
of the user base has this problem, and only a small proportion of that
user base is willing to contribute a fix, the population of people willing
to help is very small. Add the pre-requisites for a fix, and the problem
goes unfixed for a long time.
This doesn't make this problem any less of a bug - it just means that you
need to factor in the whole picture when thinking about why this specific
bug hasn't been fixed.
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