Le 05/10/2014 21:36, Ned Deily a écrit : > On Oct 5, 2014, at 12:24 , R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: >> >> It is certainly true that I for one ignore anything with his name on it, >> because most of the time it is noise and it isn't worth the effort >> to figure out which ones aren't noise. > > To me, the main issue is that the noise is not just directed at python > committers but also to the python users who have submitted those issues or > otherwise following them (via nosy or otherwise). I think the risk is that > his noise sends a wrong message to those users: i.e. that python-dev has > suddenly taken an interest in this issue and that, by taking the time to > create a patch, the issue will somehow get magically resolved. That won't > happen, of course, unless a core developer chooses to get involved. > > The point of having the issue tracker is to solve problems, not to have a kind of contest about how many issues can be closed. Yes, all things being equal, it is better to have fewer open issues but that's not the primary goal.
I agree with Ned. Closing idle issues is nice, but it's hardly a benefit to Python's quality. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
