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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Fri Jan 7 20:25:15 CET 2011

On 07/01/2011 19:22, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

On 07/01/2011 19:11, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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. In our issue tracker it is more or less the same. Adding yourself as nosy sends you emails when it is updated and there is a convenient button for adding yourself as nosy without having to think up a meaningful comment. Ah, that must be new -- I didn't realize that. Nice. It is. Sorry I should have made that clearer.

Now I also want a button to remove myself from the nosy list. Me too - but it was considered unnecessary clutter in the UI. I

(Of course, a better UI for adding/removing yourself could be a star. Clicking the star changes your nosy status. It should work immediately, unlike the existing [+] button.)

Right, you still need to submit after clicking [+] at the moment.

The only (sometimes annoying but sometimes useful or interesting) difference is that you also get emailed when someone else adds themselves as nosy. Maybe that could be fixed? Then the remaining feature would be a way to sort issue lists by number of nosy people, and to display the length of the nosy list. Sounds good too me.

Michael

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