Re: Suggestion for new keywords in bugzilla

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>]

Volker Reichelt wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>
>
> > > > * diagnostic (for error messages/warnings that are misleading or broken
> > > >  and superfluous/missing warnings)
> >
> > I actually thought that there should be two keywords for this:
> >
> > missing-diagnostic (There should be a warning, but there isn't.)
> > misleading-diagnostic (There's a warning which shouldn't be there, or 
> > should be replaced by a different warning.)
>
>
> I don't think that we really need two keywords, because the volume is low:
> We now have thirty-something PRs with the stamp "[diagnostic]" in the
> summary line. They all fit on a single screen. And even if the number
> doubled, the number would still be small compared to "ice-on-(in)valid-code"
> for example.
Missing diagnostics and misleading diagnostics are often very different 
kinds of issues requiring different skills to fix, which is why I 
thought the distinction might be useful.

I defer to the opinion of this list. :-)

> And we still have the summary line where we can give information like
> "misleading".
>
> Btw, thanks for adding the keyword "error-recovery"!
I saw consensus. :-)

> Regards,
> Volker