[Python-Dev] Goodbye (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 17:01:35 CEST 2010

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le samedi 25 septembre 2010 à 00:42 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit :

> > I have often used searches on "performance" or "resource usage" to find > what was needing a review or a patch. I think it would be a mistake to > remove those two categories.

That purpose would be served just as well by keywords though (particularly since those attributes aren't mutually exclusive - resource usage problems will usually cause performance problems, and you may notice the latter first). A generic "bug" classification would also better suit documentation bugs. The simpler we can make the more common fields, while still providing the essential information, the better. But how should a performance improvement be filed? Bug? Feature request? Or should "feature request" be renamed "improvement"?

It's a feature request (since we won't backport it unless there is a genuine performance problem being addressed as a bug fix). Whether that warrants changing the name, I don't know. A third option for "other improvement" may also work (since that would also cover things like clarifying doc wording, fixing comments, adjusting code to be more readable/obviously correct, etc).

Cheers, Nick.

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

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