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Re: RESOLVED states in bugzilla
- From: Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan at synaptics-uk dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:00:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: RESOLVED states in bugzilla
Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
> These are doubtful. I haven't seen a PR where someone said "We're never
> going to fix this", but it won't hurt to have this; and WORKSFORME is not
> a very strong statement:
WORKSFORME has a meaning that seems to me strong enough to be
useful. (And not equivalent to INVALID as someone else suggested.)
It means:
At least one of us has looked at this; none of us
has been able to reproduce the buggy behaviour.
If we could, we'd agree that it's a bug.
Whereas INVALID means:
The behaviour you report is not a bug.
I think that's a useful distinction. For instance: suppose
a new bug report, just like the already resolved one, comes in.
For an INVALID bug you just file it as a duplicate and forget
about it. For a WORKSFORME bug you should consider seriously
that maybe it's more reproducible than you thought.
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