WxPython versus Tkinter

[Nicholas Devenish]

On 26/01/2011 00:40, Ian wrote:
> Are you referring to ticket #14081?  I expect the reason this hasn't
> been addressed is because nobody has submitted a patch or suggested an
> improved wording.  If you were to make a suggestion, I doubt that
> anybody would be hostile to the idea of improving the tutorial.

Actually, it was that ticket, good hunting.

It's not so much that it was marked as duplicate, but that the bug it's 
marked "Yet another" duplicate of is marked 'invalid', implying that the 
Django developers consider it not a bug (i.e. user error, and not 
something to be patched or reworded). If it was open, even as a 
long-term low-priority documentation bug, then closing and marking the 
duplicate report wouldn't have felt prickly at all.

I did some digging at the time, and there were indeed several more 
instances of this confusion arising (that I failed to find in my cursory 
search before posting the report); if intelligent people are getting 
confused over the tutorial, (a document specifically designed for people 
unfamiliar with the framework), then it sure sounds like a documentation 
bug. Especially as, in some of the tickets, the responder explained the 
issue (so, a need to explain) before closing the ticket.

Essentially, if people are hostile to the idea of accepting a 
documentation problem, surely they might react the same way to a patch 
for it.

And this is the first impression I got of the django community; because 
I am only a casual user, I subsequently didn't feel any need to 
potentially 'fight against the system' over the issue. I'll take your 
encouraging comments on the general friend-and-helpful-ness of the 
Django community onboard.

Thanks,

Nick