On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Pauli Virtanen <[email protected]> wrote: > Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:37:22 -0700, David Goldsmith wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > [clip] > >> Is there a chance that some changes got lost? > > > > (Almost) anything's possible... :-( > > There's practically no change of edits getting lost.
But there is a chance of edits not being saved (due to operator error, e.g., inadvertently clicking cancel): happened to me just yesterday while making edits to gumbel; reminded me -the hard way- of another reason to make extensive edits on one's own machine, then cut/paste them into the edit window in the Wiki when done. > There's a change of > them being hidden if things are moved around in the source code, causing > duplicate work, but that's not the case here. > > > Well, here's what happened in the particular case of numpy's pareto: > > > > The promotion to "Needs review" took place - interestingly - 2008-06-26 > > (yes, two years ago today), despite the lack of a Returns section; the > > initial check-in of HOWTO_DOCUMENT.txt - which does specify that a > > Returns section be included (when applicable) - was one week before, > > 2008-06-19. So, it's not that surprising that this slipped through the > > cracks. > > > > Pauli (or anyone): is there a way to search the Wiki, e.g., using a > > SQL-like query, for docstrings that saw a change in status before a > > date, or between two dates? > Thanks Pauli. Anyway, I figured out another way: I'm using the stats page, and checking anything that was "Needs review" or better before 2008-06-19 and up to a month after - after that, we'll just have to trust that the review process will detect it. FWIW, the only docs I've found so far w/ that particular error are the ones that Vincent found -you did say you found three, right Vincent?- but I've found other problems w/ other docstrings (some of which have since advanced past the state they were in back then, i.e., the errors went undetected even though someone has ostensibly reviewed them.) DG DG > > No. The review status is not versioned, so the necessary information is > not there. The only chance would be to search for docstrings that haven't > been edited after a certain date. > > -- > Pauli Virtanen > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero. Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide. (As interpreted by Robert Graves)
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