[Python-Dev] Posting frequent spurious changes in bugtracker

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Jan 3 21:13:37 CET 2013


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:

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> This happens to me very frequently.
>
> I get the notification about new issues open in the bugtracker. If I
> see an interesting "bug", I usually open a Firefox tab with it, to
> monitor it, decide if I will work on it in the future, whatever.
>
> When I have time to decide, I proceed. If I find the issue interesting
> but don't have the time to work on it, or somebody else is taking care
> of it, I just add myself to the nosy list, and close the tab.
>
> The problem with this is that even if I reload the tab, flags are
> usually stale and when I add myself to the nosy list, I revert flags
> to the old value.
>
> This happens frequently. Last time:
> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16833#msg178917>
>
> I think tracker should keep a "version" hidden field, and refuse to
> act if the version on server is different that the just posted
> changes. Or something.
>

I think this should probably go upstream to Roundup if you want to see it
implemented as it's a general thing and not specific to our instance.


>
> Or am I doing something fundamentally wrong?. I reflesh 99% of the
> time, but could forget sometimes, and some other times I need a
> "shift+reload" to bypass browser cache.
>
>
Well, I would argue you are doing something fundamentally wrong by
submitting anything without refreshing first. It is a form so technically
nothing is being done incorrectly in changing values based on what you
submit, whether you view them stale or not.

If you want to keep this workflow going I would write a greasemonkey script
which refreshes those tabs you leave open on occasion to avoid this issue.

-Brett



> PS: Tracker tells me about conflicts ocasionally, but most of the time
> the stale flags are not noticed.
>
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