[Python-Dev] Reorganize Python categories (Core, Library, ...)?

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Python uses a few categories to group bugs (on bugs.python.org) and
> NEWS entries (in the Python changelog). List used by the blurb tool:
>
> #.. section: Security
> #.. section: Core and Builtins
> #.. section: Library
> #.. section: Documentation
> #.. section: Tests
> #.. section: Build
> #.. section: Windows
> #.. section: macOS
> #.. section: IDLE
> #.. section: Tools/Demos
> #.. section: C API
>
> My problem is that almost all changes go into "Library" category. When
> I read long changelogs, it's sometimes hard to identify quickly the
> context (ex: impacted modules) of a change.
>
> It's also hard to find open bugs of a specific module on
> bugs.python.org, since almost all bugs are in the very generic
> "Library" category. Using full text returns "false positives".
>
> I would prefer to see more specific categories like:
>
> * Buildbots: only issues specific to buildbots
> * Networking: socket, asyncio, asyncore, asynchat modules
> * Security: ssl module but also vulnerabilities in any other part of
> CPython -- we already added a Security category in NEWS/blurb
> * Parallelim: multiprocessing and concurrent.futures modules
>
> It's hard to find categories generic enough to not only contain a
> single item, but not contain too many items neither. Other ideas:
>
> * XML: xml.doc, xml.etree, xml.parsers, xml.sax modules
> * Import machinery: imp and importlib modules
> * Typing: abc and typing modules
>
> The best would be to have a mapping of a module name into a category,
> and make sure that all modules have a category. We might try to count
> the number of commits and NEWS entries of the last 12 months to decide
> if a category has the correct size.
>
> I don't think that we need a distinct categoy for each module. We can
> put many uncommon modules in a generic category.
>
> By the way, we need maybe also a new "module name" field in the bug
> tracker. But then comes the question of normalizing module names. For
> example, should "email.message" be normalized to "email"? Maybe store
> "email.message" but use "email" for search, display the module in the
> issue title, etc.
>
> Victor


Personally I've always dreamed about having *all* module names. That would
reflect experts.rst file:
https://github.com/python/devguide/blob/master/experts.rst



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Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com
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