Can we call this discussion closed? There’s not much more to be said. I’m not picking on you, Chris, I just think that not much will be gained by continuing the thread.
I appreciate Esmeralda’s messages and all the responses. Now let’s go fix some bugs! :-) (Obligatory XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/386/ ) —Guido On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 17:55 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 10:06 AM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > > > > On 7/1/2021 7:39 PM, esmeraldagar...@byom.de wrote: > > > "Merging something is also a responsibility to whoever does it" - And > it's also a responsibility to fix bugs, no? I don't get why you're so > afraid of (maybe!) introducing a new bug when there already (certainly!) is > a bug. > > > > Because the new bug you introduce might be much, much worse than the bug > > you're fixing. > > > > It's worth noting that, in the (rare) cases where there clearly is no > downside to fixing a bug... it just gets fixed. You won't see those > kinds of issues in Stack Overflow answers, because they're not there > any more. Calling the review process flawed on the basis of the issues > still open after X years is as incomplete a picture as saying that all > music from the 18th century is awesome on the basis of the music > that's still being played today. *By definition*, you're only seeing > the hairy issues, the ones where it's far from clear what the correct > action is (merge, modify, or do nothing). > > If you want a rough idea of the things that get fixed quietly, browse > the What's New for a point release, for example: > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-394/ > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/TC6MFY6HEQEV4XPLSRMYDMFAOU32WJ6V/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido (mobile)
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