Weekly D updates 5th-12th August 2022

[RazvanN]

On Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at 11:47:30 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at 10:44:47 UTC, Sergey wrote:
>> ...
>> Does “Wontfix” mean that it is not a bug, it is a feature?
>
> I had the same question in another thread like this, I think it 
> would be nice to have a bit of insight about this one and 
> Invalid.
>
> Matheus.

As there is no official definitions for the categories, I'm just 
going to lay out what I understand as being the difference 
between the two:

1. WONTFIX means that the reported issue might have some merit, 
however, due to other circumstances the feature or fix that is 
being asked for is not going to be implemented. Reasons for that 
may be: the proposed feature does not bring a reasonable benefit, 
the implementation might add unreasonable complexity, the fix 
might cause massive breaking changes, the feature that is request 
does not bode well with other language features etc.

2. INVALID means that the bug report comes from a 
misunderstanding of the spec or the compiler features, or the 
code snippet that is reported contains a bug etc.

The fundamental difference between the two is that a WONTFIX bug 
report might have some merit, but because of various reasons it 
is not going to be pursued, whereas an INVALID bug report does 
not have any grounds for asking for a change.

That being said, there might be situations where the difference 
between a category or another are not that obvious so people 
might mislabel bug reports. If that is the case, feel free to 
comment on the bug report page to make a case for what you think 
the right labeling is.

I hope this brings more light in the distinction.

Cheers,
RazvanN