Re: [Python-Dev] Bug tracker house cleaning.

2009-02-25 Thread skip
Raymond> ISTM, that when closing duplicate bug reports, both should Raymond> reference one another so that the combined threads don't get Raymond> lost. RT has a merge feature which allows you to take a duplicate an merge it into another ticket. This merges the chain of comments, cc's

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug tracker house cleaning.

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel (ajax) Diniz
Hi Raymond, Thanks a lot for the feedback. I actually am more than a bit concerned about the effect of my wholesale edits on the signal to noise ration. Any clarifications are most welcome (and I'm open to change methods and immediate goals) :) Raymond Hettinger wrote: > ISTM, that when closing du

Re: [Python-Dev] Bug tracker house cleaning.

2009-02-10 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > ISTM, that when closing duplicate bug reports, both should reference one > another so that the combined threads don't get lost. This suggest a feature request (which Google's internal tracker has): when a bug is closed as Duplicate, inde

[Python-Dev] Bug tracker house cleaning.

2009-02-10 Thread Raymond Hettinger
ISTM, that when closing duplicate bug reports, both should reference one another so that the combined threads don't get lost. Also, assigning bugs to people who haven't asked to handle them doesn't seem like it is actually cleaning-up anything. If something is assigned to someone, I usually as