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From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:46:44
Message-Id: 200703252241.54359.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla by "Kevin F. Quinn"
1 Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
2 > I know I've seen many instances where the word INVALID has got
3 > peoples hackles up, [...] This is the same issue I have with
4 > "NOTABUG" - it's like saying, "you're wrong, shouldn't have raised
5 > the report", just perhaps not as in-your-face as INVALID.
6
7 Precisely. "NOTABUG" sounds less harsh than "INVALID" (for some
8 just a little, for others a lot), it is less likely to irk people,
9 and it is also used elsewhere, so why not use it instead?
10
11 (But don't use "NOCHANGE", that is too cryptic.)
12
13 Benno
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>