On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 2:12 PM Mariatta <maria...@python.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 12:35 PM Matthew Woodcraft <matt...@woodcraft.me.uk> > wrote: > >> >> One part of this PEP stands out to me: >> >> | We should not be moving all open issues to GitHub. Issues with little >> | or no activity should just be closed. Issues with no decision made for >> | years should just be closed. >> >> I strongly advise against closing bug reports just because they're old. >> >> I know that the Python developers value trying to be a welcoming >> community. To many people, having a bug report that they put some effort >> into closed for no reason other than the passage of time feels like a >> slap in the face which stings harder than, for example, intemperate >> words on a mailing list. >> >> This is even more true if there won't be an option to re-open the bug, >> which seems to be what the PEP is saying will be the case. >> >> If a bug has been around for a long time and hasn't been fixed, the most >> useful information for the bug tracker to contain is "this bug has been >> around for a long time and it hasn't been fixed". Leaving the bug open >> is the simplest way to achieve that. >> >> (I think the above only goes for issues which are actually reporting >> bugs. Wishlist items are a different matter.) >> >> -M- >> > > > Thanks. A similar argument had been made by several other core devs in > person during Language summit 2018 as well as during the drafting of PEP > 581, that we shouldn't be closing issues blindly. > > I hear you (all) and I see the point. I agree that we shouldn't just be > closing all issues. I will edit the PEP sometime later today (or later this > weekend). >
yay thanks! :) *(because I fixed this SourceForge issue number era bug https://bugs.python.org/issue1054041 <https://bugs.python.org/issue1054041> in 3.8 :)*
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