[Python-Dev] OS information, tags (original) (raw)

Anand Balachandran Pillai abpillai at gmail.com
Tue Apr 13 16:17:16 CEST 2010

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 07:06:29PM +0530, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: >> I am surprised to see that the bug-tracker >> doesn't have an OS classifier or ability to add >> tags ? Since a number of issues reported seem to > > There is one. In the Components you can do a multiple select and it > has Macintosh , Windows as options.

Thanks for pointing that out. I missed it.

A problem seems to be that for most bugs, the filer seems to select just one component and leave the rest of it to bug description. When I searched with "Windows" component, the most recent bugs I saw was upto 1 week ago, where as a bug like http://bugs.python.org/issue8384 which is a distutils issue reported on Windows is not present, because the reporter chose to file it under "distutils" component.

I think that setup dates from the Sourceforge days when we didn't have keywords or the ability to add our own fields. Would it make sense to put a request on the metatracker to convert these to keywords now that they're available? Or even a separate OS field with "Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, Other" as the options? While there is some Windows and Mac specific code, treating them as separate components seems fairly unintuitive.

+1. I don't understand why Windows and Mac should come under "Components". It is not very obvious to the reporters also.

Separate question: Who is in charge of bug triaging in pydev ? This is something which I would like to help out with, if help is required :-)

Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------

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