On 05.04.2018 at 00:12, Rowan Collins wrote: > On 4 April 2018 22:44:56 BST, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> While I most certainly don't like the sometimes explicit and/or >> aggressive language used by Harald, I consider him a valuable bug >> reporter nonetheless[1]. >> >> [1] >> <https://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=&boolean=0&limit=30&order_by=&direction=DESC&cmd=display&status=All&bug_type=All&project=All&php_os=&phpver=&cve_id=&assign=&author_email=spam2%40rhsoft.net&bug_age=0&bug_updated=0&commented_by=> > > I just sorted that list by status, and of 111 bugs, 27 are closed as "not a > bug", 6 "won't fix", and 2 were detected as spam, including one with the > intriguing title " PHP >= 5.6.0 is broken by definition".
However, 27 reports have been closed (I'm assuming they have been valid and have been resolved), a few are analyzed or assigned, and there are a lot of still open tickets, which may be valid or not. > There may be some genuinely useful reports in there, and even some of the > not-a-bugs might not be awful, but is it really a list we can't do without, > for the sake of not scaring everyone else away? Indeed, that is the question! (A follow-up question might be how to block somebody from the bugtracker, since to my knowledge one could state basically arbitrary email addresses). Quoting spam2 at rhsoft dot net from <https://bugs.php.net/76184>: | […] but i prefer the Torvalds style Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. :) -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php