On Jan 25, 4:01 pm, Nicholas Devenish <misno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally, no, it probably wouldn't have caused me not to use wx. But > it certainly would have put a mental tick in the against box, because a > frameworks community matters. As a little aside, a personal example is > Django, whose tutorial contained what to my un-django-trained eye looked > like an inconsistency bug, without explanation. I filed a bug report, > and apparently many other people have had the same misassumption > (indicating a problem with the tutorial). The bug was closed with words > effectively equivalent to "Stupid newbie". Ignoring the fact that > documentation being consistently misinterpreted should indicate a real > problem, why should I put my time and effort into learning a framework > with a community that is so hostile, when there are plenty of alternatives?
Speaking as a Django user and occasional developer, I'm sorry to hear that you had a bad experience with the Django community. I have generally found it to be friendly and helpful, at least on the mailing list and the IRC channel. The ticket triagers have 1800+ open tickets to organize, so they can get ornery about duplicates at times. 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. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
