On 7/12/06, Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Obviously I don't expect people to read all of the docs; I know I don't. But when something I am using starts to act differently in a program (and especially a programming language), I do do at least a little investigating. I don't expect people to read Misc/NEWS upfront, but if something suddnely starts to act differently I would expect them to at least try to figure it out and hopefully report a bug if it is one.
As Neal said, we are not perfect; bugs happen. If we all gave up on a piece of software after two bugs we would not be able to turn our computers. =)
-Brett
Hi Brett,
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:05:21PM -0700, Brett Cannon wrote:
> It is the last point in the first paragraph on time.strftime() discussing
> what changed in Python 2.4 as to what the change was. It's also in
> Misc/NEWS . Basically the guy didn't read the release notes or the docs to
> see why that changed and that it was legitimate and needed for stability.
Surely everybody should read and think carefully about each (longish)
NEWS file for each software package whenever they update their machines
or switch to one with newer software than they last used.
Or if they cannot bother, surely they should read at least Python's?
Obviously I don't expect people to read all of the docs; I know I don't. But when something I am using starts to act differently in a program (and especially a programming language), I do do at least a little investigating. I don't expect people to read Misc/NEWS upfront, but if something suddnely starts to act differently I would expect them to at least try to figure it out and hopefully report a bug if it is one.
I guess I'm going to side with Greg Black on his blog entry.
Only two breakages is certainly nice, and I know that we all try quite
hard to minimize that; that's probably still two breakages too much.
As Neal said, we are not perfect; bugs happen. If we all gave up on a piece of software after two bugs we would not be able to turn our computers. =)
-Brett
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