#17754: stopgap enhancement
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Reporter: jakobkroeker | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-6.5
Component: PLEASE CHANGE | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by was):
Replying to [comment:2 jakobkroeker]:
> Gee, calm down ;-). This is a half-baked enhancement suggestion, not
criticism.
> .
Sorry -- I worry a huge amount about how to effectively decide to spend
time. Mistakenly spending time on things that aren't big problems is a
huge danger, so I'm particularly careful about it.
I'm worried not due to criticism but because this suggestion is dangerous
as is... as Jereon says.
> > add hide_stopgap('some-hash-of-message')
>
> That would be fine right now. At a later time point when the stopgap
list will be huge
> (no worries, I will work on that soon *g ) that might be no longer
sufficient.
> .
>
> >In practice I have never once heard of any complaints from anybody
about not being able to turn off a stopgap message. Never -- not once.
>
> People usually do not complain, they work around issues. We have to
acitvely ask for reports
> (as I had e.g. to for [http://www.singular.uni-
kl.de:8002/trac/ticket/694 Singular bug 694] by Dino Lorenzini; or for
#17697 - my office colleague dit hit it,...)
> .
People complain a lot to me...
> Absolutely, that makes sense... for most of us. Why not add some
tolerance for users/developers with a different point of view?
I agree; that's why I also included some ideas for how to do this.
I think my suggested approach addresses jdmeyer's very valid concerns
(which I also have). Instead of showing the message once, make the user
have to very explicitly turn off the warning.
That said, I don't think this should be a high priority.
-- William
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