Old Python version categories in Bug Tracker
People: As the process of deprecating old bugs evolves, the following categories got empty: Python 2.1.1 Python 2.1.2 Python 2.2.1 Python 2.2.1 candidate Python 2.2.2 The SF interface doesn't allow to delete old categories, but maybe we could ask SF support to do it, as nowadays doesn't make sense to open a bug in these categories. As an infortunate example, somebody opened today a bug in the "Python 2.2" category, :( What do you think? Thanks. . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/
As the process of deprecating old bugs evolves, the following categories got empty:
Python 2.1.1 Python 2.1.2 Python 2.2.1 Python 2.2.1 candidate Python 2.2.2
That's great news.
The SF interface doesn't allow to delete old categories, but maybe we could ask SF support to do it, as nowadays doesn't make sense to open a bug in these categories.
As an infortunate example, somebody opened today a bug in the "Python 2.2" category, :(
What do you think?
There's no harm in having these surface. If the category is accurate, let's use it. If the bug is out of date, we can mark it as such and close it. Raymond
On Monday 30 May 2005 17:06, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
There's no harm in having these surface. If the category is accurate, let's use it. If the bug is out of date, we can mark it as such and close it.
While we can't (and shouldn't) delete categories, we can change the text used to describe them. So "Python 2.2.2" can become "Python 2.2.2 (unmaintained)". Whether this is desirable or not, I'm not sure. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
On Monday 30 May 2005 17:06, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
There's no harm in having these surface. If the category is accurate, let's use it. If the bug is out of date, we can mark it as such and close it.
While we can't (and shouldn't) delete categories, we can change the text used to describe them. So "Python 2.2.2" can become "Python 2.2.2 (unmaintained)". Whether this is desirable or not, I'm not sure.
One can also create a new group for "really old stuff", place a comment that describes the original group (something like "PreviousGroup..."), then when closing/wont fix/etc., move the object into the new group. Then we can rename/reuse those 2.1 and 2.2 categories as desired. If one wants to search for items that used to be in some group, one can use the search functionality of sourceforge. Pain in the rear, but it is a solution to the 'problem' of having 2.1 and 2.2 groups. - Josiah P.S. I personally wouldn't do this; I would rename as Fred suggests.
On Monday 30 May 2005 22:46, Josiah Carlson wrote:
Pain in the rear, but it is a solution to the 'problem' of having 2.1 and 2.2 groups.
The issue is really that it's not clear that this is a real problem. Unfortunate, yes, but that's it. Ideally, there'd be a way to say that certain categories/groups were marked unusable for new submissions. But that's not necessary in any way. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
On 5/30/05, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
While we can't (and shouldn't) delete categories, we can change the text used to describe them. So "Python 2.2.2" can become "Python 2.2.2 (unmaintained)". Whether this is desirable or not, I'm not sure.
+1 for this solution. We (aka "this list", ;) took the decision of deprecate old bugs (more than one version to the past, <=2.2.* at this moment) if original poster or commenters didn't update them. So, I think is fair enough to inform people in that way when they want to post a bug to that versions. Opinions? Thanks! . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/
Facundo Batista wrote:
On 5/30/05, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
While we can't (and shouldn't) delete categories, we can change the text used to describe them. So "Python 2.2.2" can become "Python 2.2.2 (unmaintained)". Whether this is desirable or not, I'm not sure.
+1 for this solution.
+1 from me as well. -Brett
Brett C. wrote:
Facundo Batista wrote:
On 5/30/05, Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
While we can't (and shouldn't) delete categories, we can change the text used to describe them. So "Python 2.2.2" can become "Python 2.2.2 (unmaintained)". Whether this is desirable or not, I'm not sure.
+1 for this solution.
+1 from me as well.
Sounds good to me, too, as long as a bit of explanatory text is added to the 'submit new' page. (e.g. "If no other groups apply, please use the group for your major Python version. Bugs reported against unmaintained versions of Python will not be fixed unless the bug can be reproduced using one of the maintained versions.") Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://boredomandlaziness.blogspot.com
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