Hi Lennard, Any news on that post-mortem report?
Mike On Friday, March 9, 2012 11:41:41 AM UTC-5, Lennard de Rijk wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > On Mar 9, 9:39 am, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any feedback at all from Google? Comments on Issue 24324 are > > disabled, and we're directed to this thread which has no responses > > from the developers. > > > > I responded once ^_^, and I'd like to think I'm a developer. We are > watching, we are listening and if you are at PyCon you should get in > contact with our speakers[0], I'm sure they can tell you some > interesting tidbits about why this feature is gone. In the meantime we > are thinking about the hows, ifs and whats on bringing this back, but > we have not made any decision yet on whether this is feasible. It > really isn't as easy as some of you make it sound or I would totally > make it happen :). > > On a more personal note, I'm going to figure out if we can post a > proper post-mortem on this. Which will hopefully shed some more light > on this situation. > > - Lennard > > [0] https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/315/ > > > > The Updates page was awesome. Part of my daily routine was sipping my > > morning coffee while doing a quick check for any new commits/issues. > > It baffles me how something so useful to so many people could removed > > on a whim. I don't know how things work at Google, but if I was > > thinking of removing a feature of my software, I would at least open a > > new issue with the proposed change (and justification), and gather > > some feedback *before* pulling the rug out from under my users. > > > > How hard is it to just put things back the way they were? I mean, > > this isn't a new feature request, it's something that was already > > working (and working well!), that was subsequently removed. Can't > > they Google guys just roll back their changes while they work on a > > better solution? Or do they not use a version control system? :P -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code-hosting/-/PnLIKxcOqqMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
