In article <[email protected]>, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Ned Deily <[email protected]> wrote:> > > If you find a bug in Python, don't send it to comp.lang.python; file > > a bug report in the issue tracker. > I'm not sure I agree with that one, at least not fully. It's certainly > true that you shouldn't expect anybody to do anything about a bug unless > you open an issue. > > On the other hand, I often find it useful to discuss things that I > believe are bugs on c.l.p first. Sometimes people will explain to me > that I'm just doing it wrong. Sometimes the discussion will end up > with, "Yeah, that's a bug". In either case, it serves as a good initial > filter for whether I should file a bug or not, and the discussion is > often educational.
For the record, those are not my words, rather a quote from the "charter" for this forum on http://www.python.org/community/lists/. I think the point of the quoted words is not to discourage discussion here but rather a reminder about the role of the issue tracker. As you say, don't expect anybody to do anything about it without an issue on the tracker. -- Ned Deily, [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
