Should enhancement requests be allowed in bugzilla?

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> People are always going to take shortcuts to understanding something.
> When something labeled as a BUG database is filled with enhancement
> suggestions, they will be perceived as bugs - not by you or me, but by
> people taking a quick first look at D. Trying to counter that first
> impression will consume a lot of our energy we can ill afford to expend.
> It's a lot easier to give a correct first impression than to try to
> counter a false one. Listing enhancement requests in a bug database
> gives a bad first impression.

You have previously worked on commercial projects, where any sort of public
information on the quality of the product might have been difficult to get
by.

D is very much unlike these projects, and is per your own wishes an open
project. And all commercial corporation today need to take into themselves
that a large number of viable and important software projects are open, and
they support them, even if they like KDE have 12000 open bug reports and
10000 open wishes, numbers posted and commented on weekly, with bug closing
stats, and new bugs stats.

In the open source software world, bugzilla is known for holding both bugs
and enhancements request, and if some commercial entity decides not to use
D, it is because it is an open project (because someone still thinks that
is a sign of low quality). If they are open to open projects, they already
know that a bugzilla also usually contains enhancements.

We need the right tool to track what happens, and currently bugzilla is the
only alternative (and considering other projects, seriously successful at
that!) Several enhancements posts to the bugzilla shows that people expect
it to handle such. And as OpenOffice.org call their bugzilla IssueZilla, I
suspect that a similar change would be possible here.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
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