[Python-Dev] Bloody FAQ (Was: [Python-ideas] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)) (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Thu Jul 5 21:58:52 CEST 2012

anatoly techtonik, 05.07.2012 21:41:

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:

anatoly techtonik, 05.07.2012 15:36:

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:

From Raymond's first message on http://bugs.python.org/issue6021 , add grouper:

"This has been rejected before. I quite often see such arguments and I can't stand to repeat that these are not arguments. It is good to know, but when people use that as a reason to close tickets - that's just disgusting. The real problem is that people keep bringing up topics (and even spell them out in the bug tracker) without searching for existing discussions and/or tickets first. That's why those who do such a search (or who know what they are talking about anyway) close these tickets with the remark "this has been rejected before", instead of repeating an entire heap of arguments all over again to feed a discussion that would only lead to the same result as it did before, often several times before. Make the bloody FAQ and summarize this stuff? Why waste each others time?

Yes, that is exactly the question.

It takes time to write things up nicely. I mean, once someone has pointed out to you that this has been discussed before, you could just go, look it up (or search for it), and then put it into a Wiki or blog post yourself, or sum it up and send it to the mailing list as a reply. Why rely on others to do it for you?

Stefan

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