[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues
Jeremy Hylton
jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Mon Nov 24 19:02:13 CET 2008
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:58, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> I wanted to ask a policy question on the bug tracker. What are we
>> doing with bugs filed against Python 2.4?
>> This bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1208304 reports a fd leak in
>> Python 2.4, which doesn't exist in the head. Since Python 2.4 is in
>> security-fix only mode, is it fair to close this with a won't fix?
>>
>
> I think so.
>
>> A meta-question: Is there a document that has any tips on how to
>> handle bug reports? It might be helpful to have a list of hints or
>> policy decisions to help people decide what to do with bugs.
>
> It's coming. I just have not gotten around to it yet. I plan to
> outline the basic steps in the life of an issue and that includes
> closing an issue and the various reasons this can happen.
If you put up skeleton doc, I can add a note to this effect.
Jeremy
>
> -Brett
>
>
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Python tracker <status at bugs.python.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ACTIVITY SUMMARY (11/14/08 - 11/21/08)
>>> Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/
>>>
>>> To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
>>> number. Do NOT respond to this message.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2194 open (+35) / 14007 closed (+18) / 16201 total (+53)
>>>
>>> Open issues with patches: 728
>>>
>>> Average duration of open issues: 712 days.
>>> Median duration of open issues: 2043 days.
>>>
>>> Open Issues Breakdown
>>> open 2177 (+35)
>>> pending 17 ( +0)
>>>
>>> Issues Created Or Reopened (56)
>>> _______________________________
>>>
>>> Tkinter binding involving Control-spacebar raises unicode error 11/18/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1028 reopened ocean-city
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Byte/string inconsistencies between different dbm modules 11/21/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3799 reopened brett.cannon
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> type of UserList instance returns class instead of instance 11/14/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4326 created chafporte
>>>
>>>
>>> Patch: simplify complex constant assignment statements 11/14/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4327 created novalis_dt
>>> patch
>>>
>>> "à" in u"foo" raises a misleading error 11/15/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4328 created ezio.melotti
>>>
>>>
>>> base64 does not properly handle unicode strings 11/15/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4329 created mbecker
>>>
>>>
>>> wsgiref.validate doesn't accept arguments to readline 11/16/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4330 created ianb
>>>
>>>
>>> Can't use _functools.partial() created function as method 11/16/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4331 created ssadler
>>>
>>>
>>> asyncore.file_dispatcher does not use dup()'ed fd 11/17/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4332 created christianbecke
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Reworked Dialog.py 11/17/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4333 created gpolo
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Mac Build Script is broken for 2.6 release 11/17/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4334 created ngift
>>>
>>>
>>> inspect.getsourcelines ignores last line in module 11/17/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4335 created RafeSacks
>>>
>>>
>>> Fix performance issues in xmlrpclib 11/17/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4336 created krisvale
>>> patch, patch, easy
>>>
>>> Iteration over a map object with list() 11/17/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4337 created jmfauth
>>>
>>>
>>> TypeError (bytes/str) in distutils command "upload" 11/17/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4338 created hagen
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Fix set-like dictview doc 11/17/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4339 created tjreedy
>>>
>>>
>>> xmlrpc.client - default 'SlowParser' not defined 11/17/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4340 created mwatkins
>>>
>>>
>>> Update __hash__ doc 11/17/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4341 created tjreedy
>>>
>>>
>>> (Tkinter) Please backport these 11/18/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4342 created gpolo
>>>
>>>
>>> New function in Tkinter.py: setup_master 11/18/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4343 created gpolo
>>> patch
>>>
>>> crash upon launch 11/18/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4344 created source.mod
>>>
>>>
>>> Implement nb_nonzero for PyTclObject 11/18/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4345 created gpolo
>>> patch
>>>
>>> PyObject_CallMethod changes the exception message already set by 11/18/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4346 created gpolo
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Dependencies of graminit.h are not rebuilt when the file is rege 11/18/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4347 created thomas.lee
>>> patch
>>>
>>> bytearray methods returning self 11/18/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4348 created DinoV
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> sys.path includes extraneous junk 11/18/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4349 created exarkun
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> Remove dead code from Tkinter.py 11/19/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4350 created gpolo
>>> patch
>>>
>>> [PATCH] Better stacklevel for GzipFile.filename DeprecationWarni 11/19/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4351 created pjenvey
>>> patch
>>>
>>> imp.find_module() fails with a UnicodeDecodeError when called wi 11/19/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4352 created Jukka Aho
>>>
>>>
>>> Move description what a trace should should return to settrace f 11/19/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4353 created rocky
>>>
>>>
>>> distutils.command.register is broken 11/19/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4354 created hagen
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Error in docs of urllib.request and urllib.parse 11/19/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4355 created hagen
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Add "key" argument to "bisect" module functions 11/19/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4356 created tebeka
>>>
>>>
>>> frozen?set operations create incorrectly initialized instances o 11/19/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4357 created alexhsamuel
>>>
>>>
>>> Segfault in stringobject.c 11/19/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4358 created farshad
>>>
>>>
>>> at runtime, distutils uses buildtime files 11/19/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4359 created a.badger
>>>
>>>
>>> SystemError when method has both super() & closure 11/20/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4360 created kaizhu
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Docstring for "Lib/string.py" is outdated 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4361 created thp
>>> patch
>>>
>>> FileIO object in io module 11/20/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4362 reopened barry
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> Make uuid module functions usable without ctypes 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4363 created hdima
>>> patch
>>>
>>> error in multiprocessing docs - rawvalue 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4364 created dursobr
>>>
>>>
>>> Add CRT version info in msvcrt module 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4365 created cdavid
>>> patch
>>>
>>> cannot find -lpython2.5 when buinding Python 2.5.2 on FreeBSD 4. 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4366 created akitada
>>>
>>>
>>> segmentation fault in ast_for_atom 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4367 created ot
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> A bug in ncurses.h still exists in FreeBSD 4.9 - 4.11 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4368 created akitada
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Error building to a nonstandard prefix (with patch) 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4369 created ot
>>> patch
>>>
>>> warning: unknown conversion type character `z' in format 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4370 created akitada
>>>
>>>
>>> coerce gone---but not from docs 11/20/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4371 created LambertDW
>>>
>>>
>>> __cmp__ removal not in What's New 11/20/08
>>> CLOSED http://bugs.python.org/issue4372 created tjreedy
>>>
>>>
>>> Reference leaks in Python 3.0rc3 11/21/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4373 created christian.heimes
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Pickle tests fail w/o _pickle extension 11/21/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4374 created christian.heimes
>>>
>>>
>>> inspect.getsource doesn't work with PYTHONPATH and source compil 11/21/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4375 created erickt
>>>
>>>
>>> Nested ctypes 'BigEndianStructure' fails 11/21/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4376 created castironpi
>>>
>>>
>>> tokenize.detect_encoding() and Mac newline 11/21/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4377 created haypo
>>>
>>>
>>> howto doc update 11/21/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4378 created LambertDW
>>>
>>>
>>> Fix exception pickling: Move initial args assignment to BaseExce 11/18/08
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1692335 reopened gvanrossum
>>> patch
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Issues Now Closed (40)
>>> ______________________
>>>
>>> Problem with doctest and decorated functions 441 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1108 skip.montanaro
>>>
>>>
>>> conditional jump to a POP_TOP optimization 253 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue2260 rhettinger
>>> patch
>>>
>>> NULL member in modules_by_index 131 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3327 loewis
>>> patch, easy
>>>
>>> test_cpickle crash on AMD64 Windows build 88 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3640 loewis
>>> patch, 64bit
>>>
>>> pressing HOME key in IDLE editor ends IDLE 81 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3679 tjreedy
>>>
>>>
>>> configure --with-threads on cygwin => crash on thread related te 58 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue3947 ocean-city
>>> patch
>>>
>>> ignored exceptions in generators (regression?) 43 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4040 benjamin.peterson
>>>
>>>
>>> Document the effects of NotImplemented on == and != 43 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4087 marketdickinson
>>>
>>>
>>> Documenting set comparisons and operations 39 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4090 rhettinger
>>> patch
>>>
>>> name conflict in ScrolledCanvas.__init__() in Lib/turtle.py 36 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4116 loewis
>>> patch
>>>
>>> "__getattr__" can't be a descriptor 19 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4230 benjamin.peterson
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Python 2.6 installer crashes when selecting 'advanced' and cance 10 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4289 loewis
>>>
>>>
>>> email package with unicode subject/body 8 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4306 barry
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Unicode in distutils meta-data? 4 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4312 loewis
>>>
>>>
>>> IDLE segfault at exit 5 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4313 ocean-city
>>>
>>>
>>> Improper use of [] in configure.in leads to useless regexp in co 2 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4316 georg.brandl
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Buffer overflow in imageop module 5 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4317 amaury.forgeotdarc
>>> patch
>>>
>>> unintended syntax error with decorators, parenthesis, and dots? 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4321 georg.brandl
>>>
>>>
>>> locale documentation is inconsistent 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4324 georg.brandl
>>>
>>>
>>> type of UserList instance returns class instead of instance 3 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4326 georg.brandl
>>>
>>>
>>> wsgiref.validate doesn't accept arguments to readline 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4330 ianb
>>>
>>>
>>> asyncore.file_dispatcher does not use dup()'ed fd 3 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4332 josiahcarlson
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Mac Build Script is broken for 2.6 release 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4334 benjamin.peterson
>>>
>>>
>>> Iteration over a map object with list() 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4337 jmfauth
>>>
>>>
>>> TypeError (bytes/str) in distutils command "upload" 3 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4338 amaury.forgeotdarc
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Fix set-like dictview doc 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4339 benjamin.peterson
>>>
>>>
>>> Update __hash__ doc 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4341 benjamin.peterson
>>>
>>>
>>> crash upon launch 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4344 loewis
>>>
>>>
>>> bytearray methods returning self 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4348 benjamin.peterson
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> sys.path includes extraneous junk 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4349 benjamin.peterson
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> Move description what a trace should should return to settrace f 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4353 benjamin.peterson
>>>
>>>
>>> distutils.command.register is broken 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4354 loewis
>>> patch
>>>
>>> Add "key" argument to "bisect" module functions 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4356 marketdickinson
>>>
>>>
>>> frozen?set operations create incorrectly initialized instances o 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4357 amaury.forgeotdarc
>>>
>>>
>>> SystemError when method has both super() & closure 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4360 barry
>>> patch
>>>
>>> FileIO object in io module 0 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4362 benjamin.peterson
>>> patch, needs review
>>>
>>> __cmp__ removal not in What's New 1 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue4372 haypo
>>>
>>>
>>> Using deiconify() hangs on exit 2646 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue453489 amaury.forgeotdarc
>>>
>>>
>>> sys.stdout problems with pythonw.exe 1616 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue973507 amaury.forgeotdarc
>>>
>>>
>>> A subclass of set doesn't always have __init__ called. 547 days
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1721812 rhettinger
>>> patch
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Top Issues Most Discussed (10)
>>> ______________________________
>>>
>>> 15 datetime: define division timedelta/timedelta 208 days
>>> open http://bugs.python.org/issue2706
>>>
>>> 12 Tkinter binding involving Control-spacebar raises unicode error 4 days
>>> open http://bugs.python.org/issue1028
>>>
>>> 10 TypeError (bytes/str) in distutils command "upload" 3 days
>>> closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4338
>>>
>>> 10 type of UserList instance returns class instead of instance 3 days
>>> closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4326
>>>
>>> 10 missing update() in _Screen.setup() of Lib/turtle.py 39 days
>>> open http://bugs.python.org/issue4117
>>>
>>> 10 Byte/string inconsistencies between different dbm modules 1 days
>>> open http://bugs.python.org/issue3799
>>>
>>> 8 FileIO object in io module 0 days
>>> closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4362
>>>
>>> 8 bytearray methods returning self 1 days
>>> closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4348
>>>
>>> 7 Reference leaks in Python 3.0rc3 1 days
>>> open http://bugs.python.org/issue4373
>>>
>>> 7 SystemError when method has both super() & closure 0 days
>>> closed http://bugs.python.org/issue4360
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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