On 07/01/2011 19:11, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Belopolsky > <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote: >> -1 on the "star system" for the tracker > The tracker on Google Code uses stars. We use this tracker to track > external App Engine issues. It works very well to measure how > widespread a particular issue or need is (even if we don't always fix > the highest-star issues first -- the top issues are "unfixable" like > PHP support :-). > > Maybe it works because in that tracker, a star means you get emailed > when the issue is updated; this makes people think twice before > frivolously adding a star. This is not quite the same as the "nosy" > list: adding a star is less work in the UI, you don't have to think up > something meaningful to say, and no email is generated merely because > someone adds or removes a star. > In our issue tracker it is more or less the same. Adding yourself as nosy sends you emails when it is updated and there is a convenient button for adding yourself as nosy without having to think up a meaningful comment. The only (sometimes annoying but sometimes useful or interesting) difference is that you also get emailed when someone else adds themselves as nosy. Michael -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html
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