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Re: Radical proposal: skip 3.4
On Saturday 10 January 2004 21:20, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > To be more precise, these patches are marked "wrong-code" where they
> > in reality are "wrong-debug":
>
> ...
>
> > I would like to remove the wrong-code markers on these, since we have
> > the component "debug" for this (which these are all in, btw). Any
> > objections to that?
>
> I certainly don't *object* ... I'm nowhere near active enough to have
> that loud a voice, but I would like to offer an opinion. I think people
> take wrong-code bugs more seriously than wrong-debug. Its an emotional
> thing, is just SOUNDS more serious.
I understand your argument about the "emotion" involved in this. But
wrong debug information simply is not the same as wrong code. We have
other ways to rank the importance of bugs, such as its component, its
severity, and its priority.
Gr.
Steven