Duncan wrote: > Consider this: INVALID is strong enough, under the wrong circumstances, > that it /could/ set an emotionally unstable user off, causing them to > commit suicide or something. I /know/ it was deeply depressing here, > that first time, altho the effect on me would have been to simply push me > back to Mandrake and cause me to become another anti-Gentoo activist, as I > wasn't already suicidal. Some people /might/ be! One never knows the > emotional state of someone filing a bug, so consider carefully the effect > INVALIDating the bug might possibly have on their entire life. Would > /you/ want that on your conscience, that it had been /your/ action, the > marking of that one last bug they filed as INVALID, that finally tipped > them over? I know I wouldn't!
Are you being serious about this? I dont' find it particularly funny in case it's a joke. In case it's not, i find it ridiculous. If a person is that emotionally unstable that he'd commit suicide because of an INVALID resolution, he'd probably commit suicide everytime only the slightest negative event occurs too. I really feel sorry for those people who are depressive, but I wouldn't feel guilty because I closed a bug as INVALID instead of WORKSFORME. > Obviously, I like the idea of NOTABUG better, or consider using WORKSFORME > or WONTFIX. Those get the same general message across, without having the > implication of INVALIDating the user's bug, possibly/likely conveying the > message that they are not welcome as a Gentoo user, or worse yet to > someone already unstable, that their whole life is INVALID. NOTABUG sounds good, but as Ciaran said, we need another replacement for those bugs who really deserve it. If a user sticks -fvisibility=hidden into his CFLAGS (instead of CXXFLAGS), PLEASEGOAWAYKTHXBYE would be much more appropriate. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
