On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 05:09:25AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | I've already stated twice that this will not change this bug. And the
> | minute it does change I will know and close the bug.
>
> sure you won't. qt does not link :-)
Well it links in my GUII tree (don't ask me why !) and the bug is
obviously still there :)
> I am not sure if using bugzilla as personal todo lists are the way to
> go...
Well, they're not really personal are they, because they talk about
public code in the tree. So others can see the bugs.
> | If you are accusing me of not maintaining the LyX bugzilla I'd like to
> | see some evidence from you.
>
> Where did you get that from?
Because you are complaining about stale bugs.
> What I am saying is that we are too afraid of closing bugs.
I don't think we should close bugs unless they
a) are fixed or no longer reproducable
b) cannot be debugged or fixed (vague, not a lyx bug, feature-not-bug etc.)
c) are not intended to be fixed ever
Don't you agree that's a reasonable set of criteria ?
> And this is since I always get frustrated about all the bugs with
> little or no info in them...
Well why didn't you say ? I can fix this. Some of the bugs are taken
from BUGS.lyx and I don't understand them though, so I'd like some old
LyXer to comment on them.
I'll go about the list soon and improve things where I see a problem, OK
?
> I do not quite agree (as you might realize) on the use of WONTFIX.
> F.ex. If I knew that a rewrite of the internal insettabular code were
> about, bugs that were present because of the current implementation
> would be marked WONTFIX, that the rewrite actually fixes the bug is
> another matter.
That's a perfectly reasonable use of WONTFIX, but it's not what you've
been doing. You've been closing bugs as WONTFIX because they're not
going to get fixed before 1.2.0.
Closing bugs on the assumption "this will get fixed in next version when
we re-write blah blah.." is dangerous, because this stuff might not
actually happen, or might not happen in the way you envisage.
Put it another way: what is worse, a useless bug report, or an unfixed
bug that has been forgotten ?
regards
john
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