Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Christoph M. Becker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:43:47 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <54818c42$0$12995$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <54875A78.9000602@stoneleaf.us> <548790e3$0$12989$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1418172223 2819 eJwFwYEBwAAEA7CXOrS8M8b/Jyyh69FkiAoeb1+rLfTAkF+x3SZ6F0E/46RQoCuZN+v9Axl2EMo= (10 Dec 2014 00:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:43:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 X-User-ID: eJwNx9EVADEEBMCWeOyScg7Rfwm5+RsYlR1O0LHY0G9LjgZ6zxBgFu/Yn6w0majBijTXo688IZ0RdA== In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:7x2nXAOxvV8+Ad7oNy/Akl8n5nY= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBACAEBMCVEu8zDsr+I3QHdfGmOdwwmKWRevLU3AW5cPXiADXGUGEGO7XfZtaOhw8WAhEL Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:82250 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> The flaw is that when you get a 404, it claims that the maintainers have >> been notified, but they apparently don't do anything about it. They should >> be fixing broken links without waiting for somebody to raise an issue. >> Otherwise, what's the point of being notified? >> >> It's actually worse than that. By telling the end user that the maintainers >> have been notified, they *discourage* people from raising an issue. Why >> raise an issue for something that is already being attended too? > > Okay, *that* is a design flaw. Though personally, I never believe > those "maintainers have been notified" pages. I mean, anyone can go > looking at their server error logs, but how many people *get > notified*?? And when does it *ever* result in prompt fixing of errors? > > So even if this is the one site on the entire internet where that's > true, I'd be inclined to drop that text, because it's pretty much > useless. It seems to me that text can't be useless. Either it is useful (because it conveys correct information) or it is harmful (because it keeps visitors from submitting an explicit bug report). -- Christoph M. Becker