On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > On 07/01/2011 19:11, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Belopolsky >> <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> -1 on the "star system" for the tracker >> >> The tracker on Google Code uses stars. We use this tracker to track >> external App Engine issues. It works very well to measure how >> widespread a particular issue or need is (even if we don't always fix >> the highest-star issues first -- the top issues are "unfixable" like >> PHP support :-). >> >> Maybe it works because in that tracker, a star means you get emailed >> when the issue is updated; this makes people think twice before >> frivolously adding a star. This is not quite the same as the "nosy" >> list: adding a star is less work in the UI, you don't have to think up >> something meaningful to say, and no email is generated merely because >> someone adds or removes a star. >> > In our issue tracker it is more or less the same. Adding yourself as nosy > sends you emails when it is updated and there is a convenient button for > adding yourself as nosy without having to think up a meaningful comment.
Ah, that must be new -- I didn't realize that. Nice. Now I also want a button to *remove* myself from the nosy list. (Of course, a better UI for adding/removing yourself could be a star. Clicking the star changes your nosy status. It should work immediately, unlike the existing [+] button.) > The only (sometimes annoying but sometimes useful or interesting) difference > is that you also get emailed when someone else adds themselves as nosy. Maybe that could be fixed? Then the remaining feature would be a way to sort issue lists by number of nosy people, and to display the length of the nosy list. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
