On 15 Oct 2013 08:54, "Barry Warsaw" <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2013, at 03:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > >The module maintainer (Nick) approved the name change from his original > >preference for ignored(). That should had been the end of it. > > As a general plea, please be sure to record the rationale and decisions in the > appropriate place, such as the tracker and/or commit message. I think it's > fine for such minor decisions to be made in high bandwidth forums such as IRC, > it's also incumbent on the participants to be mindful of the larger community > of core developers and users. Not doing so makes our process less > transparent, puts legitimacy at risk, and alienates users and developers who > may not be privileged to those out-of-band discussions.
Agreed, although in this case there wasn't much additional rationale beyond "Raymond and I decided we preferred the shorter spelling, so we changed it" :) I figured it was a minor enough change that the commit message was adequate documentation, but I acknowledge it would have been better to create a new issue with its own NEWS entry to more explicitly track the change. Cheers, Nick. > > Cheers, > -Barry > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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