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Not specific to specific examples in the article, I think some of the things people perceive as "bugs" other people see as features or an opportunity to correct
by randyzwitch 4y ago
Not specific to specific examples in the article, I think some of the things people perceive as "bugs" other people see as features or an opportunity to correct past mistakes.
I can remember an example where I suggested automatic treatment of missing values in a stats library, and the library maintainer disagreed. Meaning, my lobbying for Julia to do what R/Python did was seen as "Yes, but that's wrong and we shouldn't promote that sort of treatment". As a business user, I didn't care that it was theoretically wrong, the maintainer as an academic did.
That ends up becoming open-source prerogative. I could do it wrong "on my own time" in my own code...doesn't make either a bug, but a different choice based on perspective.