On 10/6/2014 1:02 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 6 October 2014 07:22, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
On 10/5/2014 3:39 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
I responded on the issue,
and will say more privately.
I wrote him and tried to communicate three ideas.
1. Closing issues and responding to new messages, while important, are
subsidiary to the primary goal of improving Python.
2. We would prefer more quality and less quantity.
3. We each set our priorites; he should not try to do so for us.
Thanks Terry.
I know Mark is particularly concerned about the "open issues" tally
and constantly seeks ways to bring that down.
I think I can suggest some better ways.
Scattergun pinging of
open issues is one of the easiest, but also one of the ones with a
high hidden cost in annoying people - for developers, it may mean
getting dozens of email notifications, for issue submitters, it may
lead to anticipation of action, only to be disappointed when it's just
a ping asking for a status update.
Since all aspects of this annoyance were not completely obvious to me, I
am sure they are not to him. With the discussion here, I understand
much better and will try to explain to him.
Terry
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