On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 04:49:49AM +0000, Mike C wrote: > I can only compare to the R language I've used. If there is an issue, > say a function freezes at startup, one user brings it up to the list, > when the respective maintainer sees the bug, it is usually addressed > on the next release.
You don't think that there might be a *slight* difference between these two situations? "Hi, maintainers of a highly popular language, here is an easily reproducable and clear bug in your language. Please fix it." versus: "Hi, people on a low-volume mailing list for beginners, there's a third-party library written by people completely unaffiliated with either you or the core developers of the language, but in my subjective opinion, its documentation sucks. Why isn't it fixed?" > In terms of funding. Isn't Python heavily used in industry, so, > financial contribution should've been huge, no? You might be surprised: - how not huge they are; - how much work it is to convince industry to pay for software they can get for free; - and how many other expenses there are, e.g. paying for admin staff, legal costs, hosting costs, funding community groups, etc. I'm not saying the Python Software Foundation is crying poor, but neither do they have unlimited piles of cash they can just throw around at random. Having said that, if a project like matplotlib went to them with a concrete proposal requiring funding, not just some nebulous "give us a bunch of cash and we'll make the docs more betterer!" it would probably be treated with all due consideration. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor