[Python-Dev] Link to issue tracker

[James Y Knight]

On Feb 23, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:38, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
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> On Feb 23, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:52, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Am 23.02.2011 19:30, schrieb Brett Cannon:
>> > I won't add the link back
>> 
>> Why not? It's a useful link apparently. The "Developer's Guide"
>> link does not hint that it will be the only way to find the
>> bug tracker.
>> 
>> But python.org/dev/ is a dead page. I was trying to avoid adding a redirect for python.org/dev/ as I was afraid that it would lead to the website doing something silly like redirecting everything below that URL, but obviously this can continue since people seem to think that python.org/dev/ has anything useful on it (which it does not).
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> It seems unfortunate that the "Core Development" link now points directly to the devguide, since it unexpectedly breaks the navigation UI. It seemed rather more useful and consistent to have "Core Development" show the page with quick links.
> 
> Honestly, working on pydotorg is too bloody painful to even conceive of doing this purely to keep a single link onwww.python.org.

Well, presumably at least 5 links: Devguide, PEP index, buildbot, issue tracker, link to source code browser. But sure, I'm just a user, I have no idea how hard it is to edit a page on pydotorg (and no, I don't really want to know). But I seriously cannot imagine it's so hard that you can't leave a page with a few links there, that had already been written!

Note how clicking everything else in the left navbar makes useful links appear below the item, and the rest of the page keep the same theme/general layout. "Core Development" is now the unexpected exception to that UI consistency, and is less useful because of it.

James
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