[Python-Dev] API refactoring tracker field for Python4 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jan 7 20:11:47 CET 2011

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

-1 on the "star system" for the tracker

The tracker on Google Code uses stars. We use this tracker to track external App Engine issues. It works very well to measure how widespread a particular issue or need is (even if we don't always fix the highest-star issues first -- the top issues are "unfixable" like PHP support :-).

Maybe it works because in that tracker, a star means you get emailed when the issue is updated; this makes people think twice before frivolously adding a star. This is not quite the same as the "nosy" list: adding a star is less work in the UI, you don't have to think up something meaningful to say, and no email is generated merely because someone adds or removes a star.

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