Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:57511 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 65296 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2012 23:02:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jan 2012 23:02:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=larry@garfieldtech.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=larry@garfieldtech.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain garfieldtech.com from 66.111.4.27 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: larry@garfieldtech.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.111.4.27 out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from [66.111.4.27] ([66.111.4.27:54285] helo=out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 0B/40-61233-41A802F4 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:02:45 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000462092C for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:02:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:02:41 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=gleLm6LLwsAQABLIPE83uB TfZ90=; b=P+pOnWAynKnru4XhBNGn4y+hN7VS7evU69NIXCbElV5+ltETowq2Q/ HdtvmX6QdcqRKSgxAHEKtVqAOwiOUHo8S8sRDK9B05DEvyqIfEDlFTpR2ejikCee L5yXc8ObcyhaDM3KVNJRfDgfQkoo1AgwUmE/5ItphDupn6o/0bxak= X-Sasl-enc: mF9+KsfAxIMNizK+DHxj2VjOP+JPBHkqLWdkY3DvZucq 1327532561 Received: from garfield.local (unknown [209.41.114.202]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C192C482514 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:02:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4F208A11.80904@garfieldtech.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:02:41 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <55.40.47393.BBA3F1F4@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Change bug tracker "bogus" to "not-bug"? From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield) On 1/24/12 5:47 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:11 AM, 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 >> >> > > +1 on this. > some other alternatives which was proposed in the past: > - Not a bug, proposed by Philip and others > - NFF/No Fault Found, proposed by RQuadling > > honorable mentions: > - pebkac, doofus, and 'not our problem' from yawk > - SEP (Someone else's problem) from cjones I was recently introduced to the concept of the "Level 8" error. (Let's see who gets that one...) Anyway, +1 from me as well to friendlier, less accusational issue statuses. --Larry Garfield