[Python-Dev] Goodbye

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/23/2010 6:17 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Georg Brandl<g.brandl at gmx.net>  wrote:
>>> Setting Versions properly helps anyone searching for issues relevant to
>>> a particular version. If having a field set properly does not matter,
>>> then is should not be there. Are you suggesting that Versions be deleted?
>>
>> ISTM that the "versions" field is not very useful if the other fields are
>> filled accurately.
>
> It's useful for bug reports to flag affected versions. We should
> probably just *not set it* for feature requests, though.

Now that 2.7 is out, so that feature requests can only be for a future 
3.x, I would actually like the tracker to restrict the allowed values 
for non-doc feature requests either to 3.2/3.3 or to Not Applicable or 
whatever. It is a nuisance that people can still file such for 2.7, for 
instance.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy