In the Markdown Recipe thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/leo-editor/iZlUs9GpCNU> we have been discussing Leo issues. Should we try to limit their number? Are open issues a "blight" on Leo?
On the contrary, I think we should regard Leo's issues as a sign of our community's vitality. There is excellent precedent for this attitude. IPython has thousands of issues <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues>, including more than 1300 open issues. Python itself has over a million issues <https://bugs.python.org/issue?%40sort0=id&%40sortdir0=on&%40sort1=&%40group0=&%40group1=&%40columns=id%2Cactivity%2Ctitle%2Ccreator%2Cassignee%2Cstatus%2Ctype%2Cmessage_count&%40filter=status&status=1%2C3&%40pagesize=50&%40startwith=0>. Iirc, GvR stated that issues were the one way of communicating re type checking, and possibly for Python itself. Github issues are a convenient place to do drafts of documentation. In particular, I am going to do prewriting for the leoAst.py project directly in #1565 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1565>. I should have seen this before: I enjoy the fonts and other features of Github issues. Somehow it makes writing easier. And I enjoy *not* having a long list replies. Confining the latest draft to the first (or second) comment of an issue keeps things simple. *Summary* Imo, we all would do well to think of new ways to use *more* Leo issues. Using issues as the basis of communication is the standard for several very successful projects. However, I think this leo-editor forum still has a place. We can easily disabuse people of the notion that issues are synonymous with bugs. All comments welcome. Edward P.S. Imo, issues are superior to Leo's wiki. However, I won't discourage the use of Leo's wiki, at least for now. EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/5db21256-35fd-49d7-a0b6-fa86cfcd174co%40googlegroups.com.
