[Python-Dev] What to do with languishing patches? (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Tue Jul 20 20:16:40 CEST 2010

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:45:42 +0200, <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:

On 18/07/2010 23:17, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Maybe going off on a tangent, but I find it frustrating because you (plural) can't find a given module on the issue tracker. Say I'm looking for issues relating to smtplib, all I can do is look in the title of the issue. Have I missed something, or is there a need to have subsections so that if Lib is selected, you can then find the appropriate module? I don't think you missed anything and I would also find this feature useful. For example, I recently took interest in datetime and pickle modules, but other than full text search, there was no way to find all issues related to either of these two modules. The "Components" list is somewhat arbitrary with narrow components such as ctypes and broad components such a Lib.

When I suggested such a modules list on <http://wiki.python.org/moin/DesiredTrackerFeatures>, R. David Murray replied “This has been suggested and rejected a number of times on python-dev” but I have been unable to find those discussions.

During the most recent discussion I can remember, I thought I remembered Stephen Trumble saying that they'd tried that in xemacs and it really hadn't worked very well. Since he now says he thinks it's a good idea (or more likely I misremembered what he said the first time), it sounds like we should consider it again.

-- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com

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