On 20/07/2014 02:42, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
Does the IDLE bug-tracker exist to *SOLVE* problems or to
*PERPETUATE* them?
Definitely the latter. If it weren't for that tracker, bugs would just
quietly die on their own. The PSU has a roster for feeding the bugs,
changing their litter, and all other bug-related duties, and when
someone goes on holidays and forgets to schedule a replacement, heaps
of bugs just inexplicably die. (The PSU generally conceals this faux
pas under the name of a "release".)
ChrisA
An alternative is that the PSU wait until some raving lunatic,
sado-masochistic nutter who actually likes triaging comes only and bumps
some of the sillier, lonely bugs, e.g a three year old failing test case
on a buildbot. Result, bug is closed as out of date. Click on the
stats link at bugs.python.org and observe the result of this crazy type
of behaviour.
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