To defend Paul here a bit, we did start some discussion here, and at least some of us said "the concept is fine, so check it in. we can totally revamp as necessary." CVS is a much better communication/testing vehicle than the damn Patch Manager or posting modules at some private web site. And we can always "cvs rm" a module. Another alternative would be to create /nondist/sandbox/ and have people toss modules-for-discussion or modules-in-progress into that area. We can dork around as much as needed. When the module is "ready", then we add it into the /dist/ branch. CVS is a great tool for this. Let's not try to create roadblocks that prevent effective work. Cheers, -g On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:10:20PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > onlinehelp.py is checked in. Here's the docstring: > > Sorry Paul, but checking things in is not the appropriate way to start > a discussion. Without a prior discussion of requirements and design > alternatives I don't think that it should be checked in, even labeled > experimental. > > The proper thing to do if you want feedback on the source code is to > post the source code somewhere (here). There are simply too many > people with too many ideas for this to work -- Python would become a > work designed by committee. > > I'm on my way to Monterey and don't have time to comment on the > contents right now, but please follow the procedure! (And I *know* > that the procedure isn't carefully documented -- that's one more > reason to be conservative in your checkins.) > > Annoyed, > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/) > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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