Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:57498 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56185 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2012 23:21:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jan 2012 23:21:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=charlie@charliesomerville.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=charlie@charliesomerville.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain charliesomerville.com from 209.85.213.42 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: charlie@charliesomerville.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.213.42 mail-yw0-f42.google.com Received: from [209.85.213.42] ([209.85.213.42:38201] helo=mail-yw0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 19/81-47393-E0D3F1F4 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:21:50 -0500 Received: by yhnn55 with SMTP id n55so2333894yhn.29 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:21:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.128.205 with SMTP id f53mr21594136yhi.111.1327447308181; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:21:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from Envato-Reviewer-2s-iMac.local ([115.146.71.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r34sm20350816yhe.1.2012.01.24.15.21.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:21:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:21:42 +1100 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <55.40.47393.BBA3F1F4@pb1.pair.com> <4F1F3ACB.9070909@oracle.com> X-Mailer: sparrow 1.4.2 (build 959.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlP45vInEFG1GJKuBO5miaIGRfJX6pzyfc4turWl4k5FgmHCfptQIG7K8luMlnDMO3rMLgQ Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="4f1f3d06_1f48eaa1_bee" Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Change bug tracker "bogus" to "not-bug"? From: charlie@charliesomerville.com (Charlie Somerville) --4f1f3d06_1f48eaa1_bee Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline It'd also be nice to see a more receptive approach to bug reports. It's concerning that so many legitimate bug reports get labelled as bogus for whatever reason. On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 10:20 AM, Matthew Fonda wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Paul Dragoonis wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Christopher Jones > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 01/24/2012 03:11 PM, Justin Martin wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > With some frequency, I find bugs which are not "bogus", so much as they > > > > are reported based on a misunderstanding. Usually this happens for > > > > documentation problems, where someone has misunderstood what the > > > > documentation says, or hasn't read the documentation > > > > thoroughly enough. > > > > > > > > I'd like to propose simply changing the term "bogus" to "not-bug". This > > > > would more politely and clearly indicate the nature of the way the bug is > > > > being closed, in addition to the comment that one ordinarily leaves. > > > > > > > > Those I've spoken to in php.doc agree. Any objections? > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Justin Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm +1 on this. It's time for a new, more collaborative approach. > > > > Sure, I'll +1 on this. The "bogus" implies "RTFM, bitch", which isn't > > professional at all :-) > > > > > I've felt this way for a long time. Big +1 on changing this. > > Cheers, > --Matthew > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > --4f1f3d06_1f48eaa1_bee--