[Python-Dev] API refactoring tracker field for Python4

[Brian Curtin]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:14, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> This mostly because of limitation of our tracker and desire of people
> >> to extend it to get damn "stars", module split, sorting, digging and
> >> tagging options.
> >
> > I have no idea what any of this means.
>
> Stars:
>  go http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/list
>  find Stars column
>  guess
>

This reminds me of my inbox, where I star emails all the time and do
absolutely nothing different to them compared to non-starred emails. I
personally don't see the need for that, so that's a -1 for me.


> Module split:
>  try to get all issues for 'os' module
>

No solution for this right now, but people have suggested that we add
drop-downs for each module. I'm -0 on that.


>  try to subscribe to all commits for 'CGIHTTPServer'
>

You can subscribe to the python-checkins mailing list and create a filter
that looks for whatever you want.


>
> Sorting:
>  click on column titles in bug tracker search results
>

This could probably be solved with a patch to our Roundup instance.


>
> Tagging:
>  as a tracker user, try to add tag 'easy' to some easy issue
>

You probably need escalated privileges for this. If you can't change it, you
can always request on the issue that a field be changed.


> >>
> >> I won't be surprised if things won't change in the next couple of
> >> years, that's why I'd like to propose a very small change, so that
> >> when time will come to create Python4 (and standard library won't be
> >> separated from interpreter by this time), everybody can get quickly
> >> get a list of proposed API enhancements and filter which are eligible
> >> for the next BC API break. This change is a simple "api-refactoring"
> >> flag that could be added to corresponding issues by tracker users.
> >
> > I'm not sure I see the need for such a flag, as there are probably too
> few
> > cases for this in the first place.
>
> I haven't started using Python 3 yet, but I already know some annoying
> API issues that are not fixed there. Unfortunately, I don't remember
> them to give you a list. That's why I asked for a flag.


If you haven't used it yet, then how are you already annoyed...?
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