[Python-Dev] Reorganize Python categories (Core, Library, ...)? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Oct 4 11:55:09 EDT 2017

On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 15:22:48 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

2017-10-04 14:36 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>: > If there's a crash in socket.sendmsg() that affects mainly > multiprocessing, should it be in "Networking", "Security" or > "Parallelism"?

bugs.python.org allows you to select zero or multiple categories :-)

I'm getting confused. Are you talking about NEWS file categories or bugs.python.org categories?

> If there's a bug where SSLSocket.recvinto() doesn't > accept some writable buffers, is it "Networking" or "Security"? etc.

Usually, when the reach the final fix, it becomes much easier to pick the correct category.

There is no definite "correct category" when you're mixing different classification schemes (what kind of bug it is -- bug/security/enhancement/etc. --, what functional domain it pertains to -- networking/concurrency/etc. --, which stdlib API it affects). That's the problem I was pointing to.

Regards

Antoine.

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