On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > As Steven d'Aprano pointed out (admittedly with a bit of hyperbole) a > very high percentage of issues (about 97%) do get some response, and > nearly 87% of all issues ever submitted to Python have already been > closed (based on the end-of-July tracker summary). Remember that many > of those that are still open are open because nobody's willing to call > them "walking dead" and close them as "unsalvagable." Any serious > effort at triage by the people who would do the work to resolve them > will surely result in a very large fraction closed with "wontfix", > what is known as "a self-fulfilling prophecy". It's not clear that's > a win; some users surely think so, others not.
There's at least one low priority bug that I submitted a couple of years ago (doctest freaking out a bit if you use angle brackets in the nominal filename) that is still open because the workaround of "well, don't do that then" is so much easier than actually figuring out why it is freaking out (my initial diagnosis pointed the finger at one of the regular expressions in linecache, but I never actually nailed a definitive culprit). Normal filenames don't usually contain angle brackets, and in my case, it was a completely invented filename so I could easily drop the angle brackets from the name. It's a real bug though, so I'd prefer not to see it closed as "wontfix". While that kind of bug is low on the effort/reward scale from an absolute point of view, someone could still learn a lot on a personal level from fixing it. Having it brought to my attention again recently let me provide some better information on how to reproduce it by hacking a bit on the current test suite, so someone looking to learn more about the dev process could definitely work through distilling it down into a dedicated test case and then figuring out how to make the new test case pass. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
