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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Sep 24 17:12:11 CEST 2010

> 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.

I think most people won't intuitively file performance issues as "feature requests", since it doesn't sound like a feature.

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).

But then why not keep a clear categorization of these "other improvements"?

By the way, doc wording fixes and cosmetic code changes often get backported. :)

cheers

Antoine.

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