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

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Jul 21 07:46:03 CEST 2010

R. David Murray writes:

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.

No, you didn't misremember. I changed my mind. Now I know more about why it didn't appeal to me at the time: the UI for links and multilinks with large numbers of selectable value, and we had a poor configuration of nosy lists, so people weren't getting on the right issues. So, I don't recommend it with the stock Roundup UI if there are going to be more modules than would fit on a page (50), and the UI is somewhat annoying for as few as 20 checkboxes.

Unfortunately, I can't offer a patch, but the basic things that need to be done are (1) make the "multilink input" window multicolumn (you could get 100 module names to fit in the window, but 50 should be plenty for this purpose), and (2) bump the limit on entries per page so they all fit on one page.

Also, it would be nice if there were a UI to make oneself "auto-nosy" on certain modules.

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