Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-20 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:06:32 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > You all might have gathered that I'm very dispirited by the negative > attitudes that I get from a relatively small minority of Python people. > I might as well quit because it doesn't do my mental health a great > deal of good. Tha

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Hell, I just wish I was fully healthy and had my MBCS/CEng status back, then > I'd really feel capable of letting fly.  Having worked on massive UK MOD > projects (can't say much, Official Secrets Acts and all that stuff) and > knowing a hell

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: .. > What am I meant to do when as happened earlier today, I see an issue that > was first raised two years ago, then a year later the OP has asked what if > anything is happening?  Leave it? That's a great advert for Python. > > How do I apply

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/07/2010 22:24, Jesse Noller wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: I'm extremely offended by your comments. I'll just back off and let the number of outstanding bugs grow and grow and grow, until such time as

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-18 Thread Jesse Noller
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >>  I'm extremely offended by your comments.  I'll just back off and let the >> number of outstanding bugs grow and grow and grow, until such time as people >> get fed up with Python an

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >  I'm extremely offended by your comments.  I'll just back off and let the > number of outstanding bugs grow and grow and grow, until such time as people > get fed up with Python and go to (say) Ruby. Please don't take it that way - Antoine a

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/07/2010 15:34, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Hello Mark, On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:45:09 +0100 Mark Lawrence wrote: On 17/07/2010 22:57, Terry Reedy wrote: On 7/17/2010 8:41 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: IIRC Terry Reedy is also interested in moving IDLE forward. Interested, yes. But until either

Re: [Python-Dev] tracker contribution

2010-07-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
Antoine, You've just saved me from composing essentially the same message. I am top-posting because I have very little to add. Mark, I actually reviewed the issues that got closed thanks to your "bumping them up". That was 30+ issues over the last week or two. Quite impressive. However, I s