[Mailman-Developers] Here's a little issue with the news gatewaying: If the n

Barry A. Warsaw barry@digicool.com
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:20:16 -0500


>>>>> "JRA" == Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> writes:

    JRA> Got it.  I presume SF has release notes, as they're built,
    JRA> too?

There's moderate release notes in the files view, and of course I try
to keep the NEWS file up-to-date, at least with the gross user visible
changes.  As Thomas can tell you, I'm pretty anal about check-in
messages, so when in doubt, cvs log is your best friend. :)

    >> Or use the wiki for discussion purposes if you want.  The wiki
    >> already contains what I think I can get to for 2.1.  I want to
    >> try to be conservative with changes because the i18n stuff
    >> really needs to get out there.  Still, I think some of the
    >> changes I've made already will help get a bunch of new features
    >> into the code base.

    JRA> Got it.  Well, the code base is pretty clean looking, at
    JRA> least the parts I've gotten into, even if my understanding of
    JRA> python is not.

Thanks!  I recently read Richard Gabriel's book and while it was kind
of inconsistent, the part I really liked is the idea that code should
be habitable.  As I concentrate on and rewrite various parts of the
code base, I try to keep that in mind.
    
    JRA> Any internals doco written yet?  Is their a second tier of
    JRA> hackers following the list?

Thomas? :)

    JRA> And will Python 2 finally get around to showing not only the
    JRA> call but the *values* in tracebacks?  :-)

Oh man, you should have seen Ka-Ping Yee's cgi driver thingie.  Among
the /many/ cool things he demoed at IPC9 (and it seemed like he demoed
a new cool thing every day) was a cgi driver much like Mailman's
driver, but which provided an awesome traceback view with values, and
probably more.  I'm Cc'ing him because I doubt he's on this list.  I'm
hoping I can prod him into talking more about it. :)

It'd be way cool to adopt either for Python itself or for non-stealthy
Mailman tracebacks.

-Barry