>>>But maybe for examplehttp://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/8170could be justclosed? >> >> Was that a typo for another ticket? > > No. It is a good example of what Jeroen said, I think. A reasonable > suggestion made 6 years ago, no comments at all after that, no comments > telling how this should be done etc. > > There is nothing wrong with the ticket. But will it help to have it open?
That ticket notes an API inconsistency in Sage (which is a type of defect/bug), and it is a valuable observation that it's there and should be fixed (at some point). If don't think such a ticket should be closed except if we maintain some sort of list of stuff to fix (but what is a ticket system other than exactly that?). Once in a while, people do browse through open tickets on their favourite component of Sage. I have this example which I understand to be closer to what Jeroen meant: http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/13252 It was completely unspecific, had no code contents and was old, so I closed it as invalid. Even had it been more specific (like "Implement Information-Set decoding for linear codes") it could have been closed since it's only value would be to state that Sage currently doesn't have that feature -- which is obvious. In the ACTIS team working on coding theory, we wrote up a list of small-to-medium issues with LinearCode and friends that we, in the long run, wanted to change: https://bitbucket.org/lucasdavid/sage_coding_project/issues/155/problems-with-linear_codepy But this is an inferior solution to making Trac tickets out of all those issues -- we went with the above list only out of laziness. Best, Johan Jori Mäntysalo writes: > On Thu, 19 May 2016, kcrisman wrote: > >>>But maybe for examplehttp://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/8170could be justclosed? >> >> Was that a typo for another ticket? > > No. It is a good example of what Jeroen said, I think. A reasonable > suggestion made 6 years ago, no comments at all after that, no comments > telling how this should be done etc. > > There is nothing wrong with the ticket. But will it help to have it open? > > This could be also a part of larger metaticket "Additions to group > theory", maybe? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
