Should enhancement requests be allowed in bugzilla?

BCS BCS_member at pathlink.com
Sun Jun 11 18:30:39 PDT 2006


>Walter Bright wrote:
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>> 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.

While the incorrect first impression is bad, what I would be most worried about
is someone who is willing to fabricate sudo-facts to make D look bad for some
reason. Listing bugs with enhancement just gives them something to misquote.

In article <e6i3nf$j7l$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Lars Ivar Igesund says...
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>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.
>
Is their any what to make it impossible to get a listing of bugs and enhancement
in the same page? If the system were tweaked so the filters won't pass both at
the same time (ever, even for a "all issues" count), that would make it clear
that they aren't the same thing.





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