[Python-Dev] Goodbye

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/23/2010 3:50 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

> ISTM that the "versions" field is not very useful if the other fields are
> filled accurately.
>
> For example, feature requests almost always only belong to the current trunk.
> Yes, for features that fall under the moratorium, the "versions" field would
> be different; however, we already have an "after moratorium" keyword that
> signifies this.  Other than this, we currently don't assign feature requests
> to specific milestones, and I don't ever see us doing that.
>
> Bug reports by nature almost always belong to all branches in maintenance;

For various reasons, there bugs that are 2.x or 3.x specific. Those that 
are not may require sufficiently different fixes that a fix is applied 
for one branch while the issue is left open for the other.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy