"Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed, as someone who merely browses python-dev, perhaps I > shouldn't care how the core developers track their bugs: if they > struggle to manage that information in future, why should I care? > Well, the reason I should care is related to the reason why the core > developers should care about more than purely technical issues: the > wider community and the core developers do not exist by themselves > in isolation; the well-being of the community is related to how > Python is managed and portrayed by the custodians of the language, > and the well-being of the development effort is related to how much > community effort can be directed towards improving the language and > its image. If this were not so, Python would have vanished like many > of its contemporaries. > > Perhaps the decision makers evaluated the above and much more in depth, > although us outsiders are not in a position to say, but perhaps the > discussion around the decision wouldn't have been so inflammatory in > places if there had been an acknowledgement of this "bigger picture" of > the community, its influences and that in a large open source project > no moderately significant decision is without a political dimension.
Thank you. -- \ "It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do | `\ is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument | _o__) will play itself." -- Johann Sebastian Bach | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
