[Python-Dev] Invitation to try out open source code review tool (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun May 4 19:01:37 CEST 2008

[Stefan, can you please keep python-dev in the CC list?]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefanml at behnel.de> wrote:

>> 2) anonymous users can post comments that won't become publicly visible until >> an authenticated user acknowledges them or comments on them. > > Can you work out this design more? I don't understand how an > authenticated user can acknowledge an anonymous comment if it isn't > publicly visible.

I was suggesting that you'd sign in as a project member and would then see all comments.

Hm. Since most users of the site are project members this means most people would see the anonymous comments (= potential spam). However, the anonymous user couldn't see their own comments back later (or be allowed to edit them). Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

They just wouldn't show up on the public web sites without further action. I think that matches the normal work flow. External users usually do some kind of upstream talk anyway. It would be rare that no project member is involved in a patch contribution. And new contributions would go through the bug tracker first anway, right?

Not necessarily.

Unless there's an uprising, I'll keep support for anonymous comments a non-goal for now.

> Also, AFAIK our bug tracker doesn't support > anonymous comments either, so I don't think this is an important use > case.

>> That should be enough to keep the system open to everybody and to keep spam away. > > It's also more work to code. Sure, it's also just an idea from my side. Stefan

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