Message 324416 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Message324416

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Arfrever, barry, benjamin.peterson, djc, eli.bendersky, ezio.melotti, franck, georg.brandl, jwilk, larry, martin.panter, mcepl, pitrou, rhettinger, rsandwick3, scoder, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2018-08-31.12:24:35
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Message-id	1535718275.19.0.56676864532.issue17239@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
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This issue didn't get much attention in 5 years. The XML documentation starts with a big red warning: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/xml.html The warning is present in 2.7 and 3.4 as well: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/xml.html https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/xml.html It seems like XML is getting less popular because of JSON becoming more popular (JSON obviously comes with its own set of security issues). It seems like less core developers care about XML. I suggest to: * close bpo-17318 as a duplicate of this issue (bpo-17239) * close bpo-24238 * close this issue We just have to accept that core developers have limited availability and that documenting security issues is an acceptable tradeoff. I don't see any value of keeping these 3 issues open.

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This issue didn't get much attention in 5 years. The XML documentation starts with a big red warning: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/xml.html The warning is present in 2.7 and 3.4 as well: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/xml.html https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/xml.html It seems like XML is getting less popular because of JSON becoming more popular (JSON obviously comes with its own set of security issues). It seems like less core developers care about XML. I suggest to: * close bpo-17318 as a duplicate of this issue (bpo-17239) * close bpo-24238 * close this issue We just have to accept that core developers have limited availability and that documenting security issues is an acceptable tradeoff. I don't see any value of keeping these 3 issues open.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-08-31 12:24:35	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, barry, georg.brandl, rhettinger, pitrou, scoder, larry, benjamin.peterson, jwilk, djc, mcepl, ezio.melotti, Arfrever, eli.bendersky, martin.panter, serhiy.storchaka, franck, rsandwick3
2018-08-31 12:24:35	vstinner	set	messageid: 1535718275.19.0.56676864532.issue17239@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
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