Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment: Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > > I think the core issue here is that bug reporters often don't want to "get > involved", and don't consider themselves contributors. Instead, they post > to the bug tracker in order to get help.
Or they just want to make a bug report. Technically, this is "getting involved", but they don't think of it that way. I know I don't. Getting involved is submitting a patch. They want to do the right thing in reporting a bug, and then work around it until it is fixed. Starting from the Python web site, it is not obvious how to find the issue tracker to report a bug. I had to resort to googling for "Python bug tracker" to find it. I never would have thought that clicking "Core Development" was the way to get to a link to the issue tracker. I don't want to do core development, I want to report a bug. And even on the core development page, there's nothing in the side-bar about the issue tracker. I have to actually *read the page content* to discover links to the tracker. [...] > The question now really is how much we want to help people that want to > "get support", rather than "getting involved". I think that a tracker link > on www.python.org would primarily serve this kind of people, and I think it I think you are mistaken. I don't think that people looking for support raise bug requests. That's too much like work. They go to StackOverflow or one of the many Python mailing lists and say "Please fix my code". Imagine you've written to comp.lang.python (python-l...@python.org) and asked for help: "is this a bug?". 99 times out of 100, it's a bug in your code, but this time it turns out to be an actual bug. Somebody says, "yes, that's a bug, please report it on the issue tracker". Where the hell is the issue tracker? How do you find it from the Python home page? You shouldn't have to resort to Google to find the tracker. The home page has an explicit "Alternative download page for China". (Why China?) I'm sure that's important, but is it more important than the issue tracker, that it gets prime billing in the side-bar and the tracker doesn't? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14361> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com