On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, Charlie Hayes <cosmo...@gmail.com> wrote: >How does the Django team know how many developers would use a feature like >this when said developers never get a chance to use it? Django includes a >lot of inane features that many fewer developers would use compared to >this. The documentation for all of Django is already pretty bad (it's >poorly organized, poorly hyperlinked, uses bad examples, etc, regardless of >what others say); blocking a PR from acceptance because the documentation >doesn't measure up to the bar set in practice is illogical.
Please don't be rude. You'd like the almost entirely unpaid volunteers in the team to listen sympathetically to your concerns; don't begin by insulting their work. Most people think that Django's documenation is exemplary. I don't think you'll find anyone who shares your opinion of it. In any case, a great deal of once again almost entirely unremunerated effort has gone into it, just like the rest of Django. You may even be right about the need for this feature, but no-one on the team is paid enough to deal with people who insult them, so it doesn't matter whether you are or not. >Practically every site that prints numbers to the screen (read: all sites) >could benefit from features like this. If the work is incomplete, let >someone take over or explain what else needs to be implemented before >acceptance is gained. Closing it as won't fix is irrational and discourages >the community (and adoption of the framework). Feel free to reopen the proposal with a clear picture of what you think is needed and how you think the need should be met, but be prepared to state the case well. And more courteously please. Nobody on the team is obliged to deal with the expression of your anger. Daniele -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/20160726211557.1039918318%40mail.wservices.ch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
