On 2012/10/13 1:16 PM, Damon McDougall wrote:
> I probably should have tested the waters first, but I added a PEP8
> github label. It's neon orange so you can't miss it. The reason I did
> this is so that the list of v1.2.x milestoned issues can be easily
> filtered by eye. That way it looks less daunting (since PEP8 isn't a
> huge priority for version 1.2 (at least not compared to bug fixes))
> and it's easier to see the more important issues.
>
> It's also temporary. Nelle's done a great job trawling through the
> codebase and raising some important points. There's a finite amount of
> bulk work to do and then the label can be removed.
>
> If anyone is offended by neon orange, please feel free to change it. I
> just wanted to be able to organise things a little more succinctly.
>

I don't care about the color, but I don't understand the rationale for 
putting these PEP8 changes in v1.2.x, especially when they are based on 
master.  It seemed to me that the thing to do was get out a v1.2 release 
without the PEP8 changes, and let them be the basis in master for 
proceeding to v1.3.

Evidently I was wrong, and we are instead doing massive cherry-picking 
from master.

A disadvantage of this is that PEP8 changes, though seemingly innocuous, 
could introduce subtle bugs, so rushing them in at the end of the rc 
cycle seems like it is taking an unnecessary risk for no functional benefit.

Eric

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