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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:07:57
Message-Id: 4605AE9E.7090108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla by Christopher Sawtell
1 Christopher Sawtell napsal(a):
2 >> See, I don't really care how the reporter feels, if something's not a
3 >> bug, then it's not a bug.
4 > In which case it must be a feature, so why not use the keyword FEATURE?
5
6 And why use it? Anything else than 'so that we are 'politically
7 correct'? Sorry, this doesn't go anywhere.
8
9 >> Don't invent confusing 'politically correct'
10 >> junk for this just because someone might feel 'offended'.
11 > I think that insufficient people in the open source and free software
12 > movements realize that in the real world there are differing cultures all of
13 > whom have differing sensitivities to language constructs.
14 >
15 > imnsho it's very important not to cause deliberate offense, because doing so
16 > perpetuates the idea that FOSS movement people are an unpleasant bunch of
17 > individuals. This causes users to make the choice of using computer products
18 > from elsewhere, and developers to spend their free time doing other things.
19
20 Oh, so resolving 'INVALID' a bug for people that report crap like 'oh,
21 my sci-mathematics/*' thingy got horribly broken with -ffast-math'
22 causes an offense to them? Well, that's a good thing, maybe they'll
23 actually use their brain next time.
24
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28
29 Jakub Moc
30 mailto:jakub@g.o
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35 ... still no signature ;)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>