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Re: 4K Bugs
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Ivan Shmakov |
Subject: |
Re: 4K Bugs |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 17:55:55 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
[…]
>> Closing bug reports tends to annoy their reporters.
Not only the reporters; if I’m supportive of a change requested,
closing the respective report will hardly make me any happier –
irrespective of who made the request.
> It does, but only because they think "closed" means that the report
> is disappeared, and "moreinfo" means that we're still thinking about
> it. Both of which are wrong. :-)
Semantically, “closed” means that there’s no bug (any more) –
that is, the recipe given by the reporter does not reproduce the
issue, or the reporter is found to be mistaken on the feature’s
intended (and documented) behavior. In the latter case, it may
still make sense to review, and possibly amend, the
documentation, so to reduce the chance of the intended behavior
being confused for a “bug” in the future. (Hence, a “mistaken”
bug report may point at an actual bug in the documentation.)
When the bug explicitly requests for the change of the behavior,
being “closed” means that either the change was implemented,
or a similar feature was provided, or that the assumptions the
request’s based upon are no longer relevant (say, when the
feature request explicitly concerns some facility that was
removed from Emacs altogether.)
Then, “moreinfo” means that the report lacks information
essential to reproducing the issue (that is: its recipe is
incomplete or missing); while “wontfix” means that the
maintainer does not consider rectifying the issue (say,
implementing the feature request) to be worth the effort.
Technically, closed bugs are archived, which mean that they
disappear from the “default” http://debbugs.gnu.org/ lists, and
also become “immutable” – unless explicitly unarchived later.
[…]
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- Re: 4K Bugs, (continued)
- Re: 4K Bugs, Andreas Röhler, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Andreas Röhler, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs,
Ivan Shmakov <=
- Re: 4K Bugs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Ivan Shmakov, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Ivan Shmakov, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Per Starbäck, 2015/12/27
- Re: 4K Bugs, Andreas Röhler, 2015/12/28
- Re: 4K Bugs, John Wiegley, 2015/12/28
- Re: 4K Bugs, Paul Eggert, 2015/12/26
- Re: 4K Bugs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2015/12/26