[Python-Dev] Invitation to try out open source code review tool

[Guido van Rossum]

[Stefan, can you please keep python-dev in the CC list?]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

>  >>  2) anonymous users can post comments that won't become publicly visible until
>  >>  an authenticated user acknowledges them or comments on them.
>  >
>  > Can you work out this design more? I don't understand how an
>  > authenticated user can acknowledge an anonymous comment if it isn't
>  > publicly visible.
>
>  I was suggesting that you'd sign in as a project member and would then see all
>  comments.

Hm. Since most users of the site are project members this means most
people would see the anonymous comments (= potential spam). However,
the anonymous user couldn't see their *own* comments back later (or be
allowed to edit them). Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

> They just wouldn't show up on the public web sites without further
>  action. I think that matches the normal work flow. External users usually do
>  some kind of upstream talk anyway. It would be rare that no project member is
>  involved in a patch contribution. And new contributions would go through the
>  bug tracker first anway, right?

Not necessarily.

Unless there's an uprising, I'll keep support for anonymous comments a
non-goal for now.

>  > Also, AFAIK our bug tracker doesn't support
>  > anonymous comments either, so I don't think this is an important use
>  > case.
>
>
>  >>  That should be enough to keep the system open to everybody and to keep spam away.
>  >
>  > It's also more work to code.
>
>  Sure, it's also just an idea from my side.
>
>  Stefan
>



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