On 07/01/2011 19:22, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Foord > <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote: >> 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. > Ah, that must be new -- I didn't realize that. Nice. It is. Sorry I should have made that clearer. > Now I also want a > button to *remove* myself from the nosy list. > Me too - but it was considered unnecessary clutter in the UI. I > (Of course, a better UI for adding/removing yourself could be a star. > Clicking the star changes your nosy status. It should work > immediately, unlike the existing [+] button.) Right, you still need to submit after clicking [+] at the moment. >> The only (sometimes annoying but sometimes useful or interesting) difference >> is that you also get emailed when someone else adds themselves as nosy. > Maybe that could be fixed? Then the remaining feature would be a way > to sort issue lists by number of nosy people, and to display the > length of the nosy list. Sounds good too me. 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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