[Python-Dev] Re: Stability and change (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 08 Apr 2002 13:40:58 -0400

[me]

> I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. If you're > saying that more micro releases will lead users to report more > bugs in them,

[Fred]

If they report bugs sooner, that is good. My first take on the question was that we'd probably see more duplicate reports for things that didn't get fixed in the next point release. It's not just a matter of fixing more bugs or when we fix them, it's how much overhead we have doing triage in the issue tracker.

I think dups are usually spotted pretty easily. We could add a standard response clarifying this. No need to point people to the specific SF # they are duplicating.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)