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

Oleg Broytman phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Jul 20 22:43:19 CEST 2010

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:27:45PM -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote: .. >> Really?  What smartphone are you using?  :-) > >   Are you developing an interface for smartphones? Wouldn't it hurt > usability for desktops/notebooks?

You missed the smiley in my response.

I am a well-known wet blanket. (-:

But seriously, I do find the interfaces that work well on smartphones to improve usability for desktops/notebooks.

Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Big screen(s) and a wheeled multi-button mouse allow quite a different interface compared to small screen and single-finger taps.

Back on the topic, I don't think a drop-down list of all modules is workable even in browsers that display them as combo boxes. How many modules do we have in std lib? About 100? Maybe more. What if the bug affects several modules? What if the patch modifies several modules? Do we want to allow selection of multiple modules for the given issue? The components window is already hard to use if you want to select say both Extension Modules and Windows. This is with just about 20 entries. Imagine over 100 entries there.

In this particular case I'd rather tend to agree - an editable single-line box to enter space-and-comma-separated modules list would be the best interface.

Oleg.

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