On 07/01/2011 19:11, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote:
-1 on the "star system" for the tracker
The tracker on Google Code uses stars. We use this tracker to track
external App Engine issues. It works very well to measure how
widespread a particular issue or need is (even if we don't always fix
the highest-star issues first -- the top issues are "unfixable" like
PHP support :-).
Maybe it works because in that tracker, a star means you get emailed
when the issue is updated; this makes people think twice before
frivolously adding a star. This is not quite the same as the "nosy"
list: adding a star is less work in the UI, you don't have to think up
something meaningful to say, and no email is generated merely because
someone adds or removes a star.
In our issue tracker it is more or less the same. Adding yourself as
nosy sends you emails when it is updated and there is a convenient
button for adding yourself as nosy without having to think up a
meaningful comment.
The only (sometimes annoying but sometimes useful or interesting)
difference is that you also get emailed when someone else adds
themselves as nosy.
Michael
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