On 2010/07/07 11:38 (GMT-0700) Greg KH composed:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:46:01PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
My mind just can't wrap itself around the Novell way of artificially distinguishing betweeen bugs and features, or following two trackers for what amounts to one purpose, with separate databases for both. I know of no other open source project where this is done - enhancement requests are sensibly kept right alongside known brokenness in the bug trackers for the YaST-less Mandriva, Mozilla, Fedora, KDE, Xfree, Kernel, *buntu, etc.
The kernel does not use bugzilla for features, it almost doesn't use bugzilla at all even for bugs.
If you imply adding code for the neverending addition of hardware to support constitutes features, I disagree. It's the nature of the beast that this is necessary, while the word feature connotes something that may or may not be desirable or necessary.
bugzilla does not work well for features at all. It can not track them across different products, can not handle threaded responses, and can not handle the different roles that people play when involved in the feature review and acceptance process.
That is why FATE was created and why it is used, it is so much better than bugzilla for this task.
bugzilla just does not work well for feature requests.
What you wrote is fine only in theory. As a practical matter screeners and deciding whether a behavior or lack thereof constitutes a bug or a missing feature is no small issue, particularly for as-time-permits testers filing bugs against Factory milestones. To me, any time something that used to work stops working or disappears, it's a bug, not a feature. Time stamps from LANMAN shares used to work in MC, then stopped, so doing whatever it takes to make them work again is no FATE candidate. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org