Kent Johnson wrote: > Here is an example. This morning I noticed a minor discrepancy in the > docs for the 'rot13' encoding. I posted a bug to SourceForge at 10:05 > GMT. At 10:59 someone commented that maybe the code was broken rather > than the docs. At 11:18 another poster responded that the code should > stay the same. At 11:25, less than two hours after my original report, a > fixed was checked in.
how many manhours did this take, in total ? did you clock your own efforts ? > The complete exchange is here: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1465619&group_id=5470 the 2.4.3 doc is still broken: http://docs.python.org/lib/standard-encodings.html (and if I hadn't kicked people around a couple of months ago, even the development documentation, which still hasn't been updated, btw, would remain broken for another 4-6 months.) > The point being that there is a system in place that in my experience works > pretty > well. so you're saying that we cannot do better, and that people who try should do some- thing else with their time ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list