On 6/12/06, Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Guido] > > While I am an enthusiastic supporter of several of those additions, I > > am *not* in favor of the special status granted to software > > contributed by certain developers, since it is a burden for all other > > developers. > > [Martin] > > Each maintainer should indicate whether he is happy with a "this is > > part of Python" approach. If so, the entry should be removed from PEP > > 360 (*); if not, the code should be removed from Python before beta 1. > > I very much identify with Phillip's gripe, but I gotta admit Guido has > the compelling argument here. Personally, I have noticed very few > "rogue" changes to optparse.py over the years, and have quietly grumbled > and backported most of them over to Optik for eventual re-merge to > optparse. (One or two got dropped because I had already fixed the > problem differently in Optik.)
Also note it sucks for users. For example, I recently closed an optparse bug without even looking at it, since it has to go into the optik tracker afaik (I think it was a doc issue). Did the person bother to go through the effort to submit the bug a second time? I don't know, but we know many people don't submit bugs the first time. The process adds work to users too. n _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
