Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 26.04.2010 15:34, schrieb Lennart Regebro: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:58, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> It is entirely *not* evident to me that it's too hard to get >> privileges in the Python development community (Python's development >> process works -- and it works really well by comparis

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:18, Georg Brandl wrote: > Am 26.04.2010 15:34, schrieb Lennart Regebro: >> Yes, but only when the checkin was wrong. For all other checkins, it's >> *less* work. Hence, a committer needs to basically fudge up every >> second checkin to cause more work than he relieves wo

Re: [Python-Dev] what to do if you don't want your module in Debian

2010-04-27 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 05:46:55PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Apr 26, 2010, at 09:39 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> >You should be permissive on that one. Until we know how to describe resource >> >files properly, __file__ is what devel

Re: [Python-Dev] what to do if you don't want your module in Debian

2010-04-27 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:43 AM, David Cournapeau wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > >> if there's no other way (--install-data is ignored right now, and I know >> you're doing a great work to change that, thanks BTW), one could always >> use it in *one* place and

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:15:01 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: > >> Who are we worried about offending? The crowds on the Internet who never > >> volunteer for anything, who never submit patches, let alone offer to do > >> the unglamou

[Python-Dev] spam on b.p.o

2010-04-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Terry Reedy udel.edu> writes: > > On 4/26/2010 11:09 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > > > > I also I don't remember ever seeing spam in the bugs.python.org > > comments which suggests that the subscription process weeds bots > > reasonably well. > > And when it fails, spam is deleted just so no

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Holden
R. David Murray wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:15:01 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: [...] > For the record, note that both Antoine and I have been instrumental in > bringing more than one new person into both the triage and the committer > ranks. We (along with others) *are* the ones doing the welco

Re: [Python-Dev] spam on b.p.o

2010-04-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou pitrou.net> writes: > > Speaking of which, what is the procedure to delete a spam message and remove a > spamming user? Well, for some reason I hadn't seen the "remove button" message... As for deleting the user, I suppose an admin can do it. Regards Antoine. _

Re: [Python-Dev] Assigned To field usage (was: Enhanced tracker privileges)

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:23:00 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/26/2010 2:12 AM, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > > Then we went on to issue 5575 and read through it. In reading this one > > to determine the priority, it was clear that the ball was back in > > Collin's court, so I showed tha

Re: [Python-Dev] Make 'normal' the default tracker priority level

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:39:39 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= wrote: > >> If possible, I think 'normal' should be the default in the hox or else > >> there should be some sort of auto replacement. > > > > Makes sense to me. > > I have now changed to make 'normal' the default pr

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
R. David Murray wrote: > And I at > least am in the mode of *discussing* it, not speaking from a position set > in stone...if the consensus that develops is that the familiarization > period can be skipped in certain cases, I'm not going to block that > consensus or get mad about it...but I don't t

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:15:49 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > No, of course not. There are always other reasons, the biggest is too > many things to do and not enough time to do it. If I did review > patches, would they be accepted on the strength on my untrusted > reviews? It is very very help

Re: [Python-Dev] Assigned To field usage

2010-04-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
R. David Murray wrote: > Well, in my recent experience there are two things the assignee gets > used for. The first is someone claiming an issue, saying, in effect, > I'm going to work this issue until it is closed. The other is to do > exactly what Sean did, assign it to the next person whose de

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dangerjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:34:48 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > R. David Murray wrote: > > And I at > > least am in the mode of *discussing* it, not speaking from a position set > > in stone...if the consensus that develops is that the familiarization > > period can be skipped in certain cases, I'm not

[Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
May I have enhanced permissions on the bug tracker, so that I can perform the following tasks? - Assign issues to myself that I plan to write a patch for - Update the Stage to "patch review" after writing a patch - Occasional bug triage My login name on the tracker is "stutzbach". I only find th

Re: [Python-Dev] what to do if you don't want your module in Debian

2010-04-27 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:41:02AM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 05:46:55PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> On Apr 26, 2010, at 09:39 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > >> > >> >You should be permissive on that one. Until we k

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread exarkun
On 01:38 pm, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:15:49 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: No, of course not. There are always other reasons, the biggest is too many things to do and not enough time to do it. If I did review patches, would they be accepted on the strength on my untrus

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:22, Daniel Stutzbach < dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote: > May I have enhanced permissions on the bug tracker, so that I can perform > the following tasks? > > - Assign issues to myself that I plan to write a patch for > - Update the Stage to "patch review" after w

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:22:07 -0500, Daniel Stutzbach wrote: > May I have enhanced permissions on the bug tracker, so that I can perform > the following tasks? Done. I agree with Brian, Daniel has been making valuable contributions for quite some time now. I/we will keep an eye on his triage, o

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 27, 2010, at 02:40 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >On 01:38 pm, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: >>2) have unit tests that fail before the patch and succeed after > >This list would make a good addition to one of the cpython development >pages. If potential contributors could find

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > Done. I agree with Brian, Daniel has been making valuable > contributions for quite some time now. I/we will keep an eye on > his triage, of course. > Thanks. Is there a document that describes the meaning of all of the different field

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:16:51 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > It would be kind of cool if there were some best practices for running said > unittest both with and without the patch enabled. Kind of like using #ifdefs > in C but without all the commenting-out-commenting-in error proneness. I > guess

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread Ezio Melotti
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Apr 27, 2010, at 02:40 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > > >On 01:38 pm, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > > >>2) have unit tests that fail before the patch and succeed after > > > >This list would make a good addition to one of the

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread R. David Murray
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:34:16 -0500, Daniel Stutzbach wrote: > Thanks. Is there a document that describes the meaning of all of the > different fields in the bug tracker? > > I've read http://www.python.org/dev/workflow/, but it doesn't cover > everything. I think it is on Brett's list to updat

[Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
I have two somewhat unrelated thoughts about PEPs. * Accepted: header When PEP 3147 was accepted, I had a few folks ask that this be recorded in the PEP by including a link to the BDFL pronouncement email. I realized that there's no formal way to express this in a PEP, and many PEPs in fact don'

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > I think it is on Brett's list to update that doc, but maybe we should help > him out :). Can you list what's missing? We should fill in the gaps. > Sure, here's what I've noticed: The page doesn't document the Resolution or Status fiel

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews (was: Enhanced tracker privileges...)

2010-04-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:43 AM, R. David Murray wrote: >I wonder if it would be better to encourage people to post the unit >tests and the fix as separate patch files. I think this is not bad idea for larger fixes, where it's not trivial to manually edit the diff. -Barry signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-27 Thread Brett Cannon
Sounds good to me (from my phone on my way to WWW2010). On Apr 27, 2010 10:49 AM, "Barry Warsaw" wrote: I have two somewhat unrelated thoughts about PEPs. * Accepted: header When PEP 3147 was accepted, I had a few folks ask that this be recorded in the PEP by including a link to the BDFL prono

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:15:49 +1000, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> No, of course not. There are always other reasons, the biggest is too >> many things to do and not enough time to do it. If I did review >> patches, would they

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Apr 27, 2010, at 02:40 PM, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > >> On 01:38 pm, rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > >>>2) have unit tests that fail before the patch and succeed after >> This list would make a good addition to on

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Tres Seaver palladion.com> writes: > > This is an excellent set of guidelines. The only drawback I see here is > that the current VCS situation makes doing the review more tedious than > it should be, especially for non-committers. Or maybe the Hg mirrors > are truly up-to-date and working? La

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > I have two somewhat unrelated thoughts about PEPs. > > * Accepted: header > > When PEP 3147 was accepted, I had a few folks ask that this be recorded in the > PEP by including a link to the BDFL pronouncement email.  I realized that > there's

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Tres Seaver palladion.com> writes: >> This is an excellent set of guidelines. The only drawback I see here is >> that the current VCS situation makes doing the review more tedious than >> it should be, especially for non-commi

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:23:19PM -0400, Tres Seaver wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Tres Seaver palladion.com> writes: > >> This is an excellent set of guidelines. The only drawback I see here is > >> that the current VCS situation makes d

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 27, 2010, at 02:37 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: >You can always "shelve" the part of the patch which isn't the test: I >do that pretty frequently in the Zope tree, where I am now doing most >development with bzr. Yes definitely. bzr-loom just makes that much easier to manage. -Barry signatu

Re: [Python-Dev] Make 'normal' the default tracker priority level

2010-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
R. David Murray wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:39:39 +0200, > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= wrote: If possible, I think 'normal' should be the default in the hox or else there should be some sort of auto replacement. >>> Makes sense to me. >> I have now changed to make 'no

Re: [Python-Dev] Make 'normal' the default tracker priority level

2010-04-27 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Done! Thanks, Martin! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] spam on b.p.o

2010-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Antoine Pitrou pitrou.net> writes: >> Speaking of which, what is the procedure to delete a spam message and remove >> a >> spamming user? > > Well, for some reason I hadn't seen the "remove button" message... > As for deleting the user, I suppose an admin can do it. For

Re: [Python-Dev] Assigned To field usage

2010-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> My perception is that making someone nosy on an issue is preferred to > assigning it to them (allowing them to assign it to themselves if they > think that is appropriate), unless the issue is of higher priority or > someone actively working on the issue really needs the other person's > input i

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Hmm, it feels exactly the other way around to me: working with the DVCS > tools while reviewiing a patch allows me to be more productive (e.g., > using 'bzr shelve' or the equivalent hg subcommand). Just try using Subversion for some time again, and you'll see that it is not difficult at all. S

Re: [Python-Dev] bug tracker permissions request

2010-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The page doesn't document the Resolution or Status fields. The resolutions are the same as the ones on SourceForge. You only have resolutions on closed issues, and they explain why an issue was closed. If any specific one is unclear in that context, please be more specific. On the status, I hop

Re: [Python-Dev] spam on b.p.o

2010-04-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Martin v. Löwis v.loewis.de> writes: > > In the specific case (msg104314), "remove" was probably the right thing, > since it isn't real spam, but just non-sensical. I don't think the user > needs to be banned from the tracker. The message was a copy of a previous message by someone else, with an

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Hmm, it feels exactly the other way around to me: working with the DVCS >> tools while reviewiing a patch allows me to be more productive (e.g., >> using 'bzr shelve' or the equivalent hg subcommand). > > Just try using Subv

Re: [Python-Dev] spam on b.p.o

2010-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The message was a copy of a previous message by someone else, with an > additional > HTML link in the middle. The target of that link was clearly the kind that > would > pay to increase its Google rank through whatever means (bogus diploma stuff, > IIRC). Ah, I missed that. I've marked it as

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
Ezio Melotti wrote: > When I'm writing the patch it's usually easy, I write the tests, see > that they fail, write the fix, see that they pass. > When I'm reviewing the patch, I apply the patch, see that the tests > pass, svn revert the fix, check that they fail. > Most of the patches affect just a

Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-04-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
Guido van Rossum wrote: >> When PEP 3147 was accepted, I had a few folks ask that this be recorded in >> the >> PEP by including a link to the BDFL pronouncement email. I realized that >> there's no formal way to express this in a PEP, and many PEPs in fact don't >> record more than the fact that

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone can do patch reviews

2010-04-27 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/04/10 17:16, Barry Warsaw wrote: > It would be kind of cool if there were some best practices for running said > unittest both with and without the patch enabled. Kind of like using #ifdefs > in C but without all the commenting-out-commenting-in

Re: [Python-Dev] Enhanced tracker privileges for dange rjim to do triage.

2010-04-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:59:26 pm Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Steve Holden writes: > > Yes, in the last year in particular there has been some excellent > > effort of maintaining the issue tracker content. But the question > > still remains - who are we worried about offending? > > In this thread

Re: [Python-Dev] Make 'normal' the default tracker priority level

2010-04-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/27/2010 4:38 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: Done! When I open http://bugs.python.org/iss...@template=item priority is (still) set at no selection. Is this my local cache (which I do not know how to clear in FF) or is 'normal' filled in after submission? I do verify that searching for any

Re: [Python-Dev] Make 'normal' the default tracker priority level

2010-04-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> When I open http://bugs.python.org/iss...@template=item > priority is (still) set at no selection. Is this my local cache (which I > do not know how to clear in FF) or is 'normal' filled in after submission? It is filled in after submission. Regards, Martin