[dmd-internals] Bugzilla keyword suggestions

[Don Clugston]

On 31 January 2012 20:21, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
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> On 1/31/2012 3:54 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
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>> Is it possible to change the keyword descriptions?
>> I would like:
>> xfail  - "Obsolete - Don't use this"
>> ice-on-invalid-code  - "Obsolete - Don't use this"
>> ice-on-valid-code   "Internal compiler error (assert failure,
>> segfault, or stack overflow)"
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> xfail is unused and should just be deleted, I'll do that.
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> phobos is unused and is redundant to the product category, and so should be
> deleted. I'll do that.
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> ice-on-* should all be merged into "ice", which should include all compiler
> internal errors and seg faults. I'll add ice.
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> I'd like to be parsimonious about just creating a bunch of new keywords.
> I've added a couple, but only because I wanted to work on a particular
> aspect.

Fair enough. Actually, with regard to keywords, the biggest potential
improvement involves patches. There's over 1000 of them, and nearly
200 are open, so it's the second biggest category.
At the moment, many bugs are listed as 'patch' even though the patch
is known to be incomplete or incorrect. Which is unhelpful and looks
bad.
We should either remove the patch keyword from those bugs, or create a
new keyword like 'partial-patch' or 'rejected-patch' for that
situation, depending on whether we think it's worth tracking them.