#16598: Useless new design classes and a replacement for _check_pbd
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Reporter: ncohen | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.3
Component: combinatorial | Resolution:
designs | Merged in:
Keywords: | Reviewers:
Authors: Nathann Cohen | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Commit:
Branch: u/ncohen/16598 | 494d82657000af8d4361a630035227c6aab6f5de
Dependencies: #16553 | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by kcrisman):
> > Or perhaps I am wrong all the way from the start and nobody cares
about new functionality or history, so it absolutely does not matter what
one can or cannot see in changelogs.
>
> You are wrong if you believe that you can edit somebody else's ticket
without asking for their opinion first. This is not a software development
issue, this is called common sense.
To be far, Nathann, I think the intent was just to clarify the intent of
the ticket to those who might not know the whole history of the 'useless
classes'. This seems pretty reasonable, since there are hundreds (if not
thousands) of people who browse Trac. Humor is a pretty slippery thing -
all about context :-)
As to ownership, I would probably disagree that anyone "owns" any given
ticket, any more than William "owns" Sage, but rather that there is
significant moral authority vested in knowing the particular code and
situation very well. So people shouldn't change titles without reason,
but if there is a helpful title change (as this one was clearly intending
to be) we can agree it's in the common good. Naturally, determining how
the Sage community governs itself on this issue is for sage-devel - see
also Steven Weber's "The Success of Open Source" for background reading on
governance in open-source communities. Should really be required reading
for anyone who spends more than a few hours a week on Trac :-)
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