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Actually I think the line between bugs and new features is thin enough so everything can go to the bug tracker. They're both changes that need to be made, track
by eloisant 13y ago
Actually I think the line between bugs and new features is thin enough so everything can go to the bug tracker. They're both changes that need to be made, tracked, to get to a better state.
Also, inevitably some people in good faith will believe they find a bug when something doesn't work the way they expect it to behave. You can't expect everyone to follow all discussions about features getting cut, so a link to whatever discussion there was (if ever) would have been appropriate.
- johnchristopher 13y agoWouldn't that be a problem for large projects such as gnome or firefox ? Devs would have to spend some precious time curating the bug tracker issues and explaining decisions and educating users instead of using the bug tracker for its intended use: to track bug.
- Dylan16807 13y agoWould? I'm not sure about gnome but firefox definitely has feature requests and planned features sitting in its tracker, with some of these created by the devs themselves for coordination.
- johnchristopher 13y agoWell... I am naive about collaborative software development :) Do users post to the firefox bug tracker when features are removed like in the gnome case ? How is it handled ?
- shabble 13y agoYep. There's one that bit me recently, where Esc key was previously able to stop GIF animations, and was very handy. Apparently, this behaviour was considered a bug, if a very long-lived one. So a recent update 'fixed' that behaviour, although the justification is stronger there, and the workaround (SuperStop addon[2]) is actually useful, although still on a different keybind (Shift-Esc) [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825486 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825486 [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/