[Python-Dev] Bloody FAQ (Was: [Python-ideas] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None))

[Mark Lawrence]

On 05/07/2012 20:41, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
>> anatoly techtonik, 05.07.2012 15:36:
>>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>>>  From Raymond's first message on http://bugs.python.org/issue6021 , add
>>>> grouper:
>>>>
>>>> "This has been rejected before.
>>>
>>> I quite often see such arguments and I can't stand to repeat that
>>> these are not arguments. It is good to know, but when people use that
>>> as a reason to close tickets - that's just disgusting.
>>
>> The *real* problem is that people keep bringing up topics (and even spell
>> them out in the bug tracker) without searching for existing discussions
>> and/or tickets first. That's why those who do such a search (or who know
>> what they are talking about anyway) close these tickets with the remark
>> "this has been rejected before", instead of repeating an entire heap of
>> arguments all over again to feed a discussion that would only lead to the
>> same result as it did before, often several times before.
>
> Make the bloody FAQ and summarize this stuff? Why waste each others
> time? If people don't enjoy repeating themselves over and over - there
> is a bloody wiki. What should happen to people to start extracting
> gems of knowledge from piles of dusty sheets called list "archives"
> for others to admire.
>
> No, it is easier to say "it was already discussed many times", "why
> don't you Google yourself", "so far you're only complaining", etc. If
> people can't find anything - why everybody thinks they are ignorant
> and lazy. Even if it so, why nobody thinks that maybe that bloody
> Xapian index is dead again for a bloody amount of moons nobody knows
> why and how many exactly? Why nobody thinks that lazy coders can also
> help with development? Maybe that laziness is the primary reason some
> major groups actually prefer Python to Java, C++ and other more
> interesting languages (such as PHP) when it comes to typing? Make it
> easy and the patches will follow. Answers like "this was discussed
> before" don't make it easy to understand, and leaving users rereading
> old 19xx archives that people don't reread themselves will likely make
> users bounce and never (NEVER!) come up with some proposal again. An
> "organic" way to keep traffic low.
>
> Miscommunication is a bad experience for users, bad experience for
> developers, everybody is annoyed and as a result such nice language as
> Python loses points on TIOBE (and convenient chunk() functions to
> munch-munch on the sequence data).
>
> Wheew. :-F
>

Can I safely assume that you are volunteering to do the work required?

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.