Ticket Resolutions

[Beman Dawes]

I'd like to add "notabug" as a ticket resolution choice. The use would
be for tickets that complain about something that is in fact true, but
is by design rather than being a bug.

In the past, I've marked these as "invalid". But I dislike doing so
because it sounds  as if I'm saying there is something wrong with the
ticket itself.

Comments?

--Beman

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[Vicente Botet Escriba]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes@...>
To: "Boost Developers list" <boost@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 1:44 PM
Subject: [boost] Ticket Resolutions

>
> I'd like to add "notabug" as a ticket resolution choice. The use would
> be for tickets that complain about something that is in fact true, but
> is by design rather than being a bug.
>
> In the past, I've marked these as "invalid". But I dislike doing so
> because it sounds  as if I'm saying there is something wrong with the
> ticket itself.
>
> Comments?

Is not worksforme equivalent to notabug? Could you give an example of a ticket so we can see a concrete case?
Best,
Vicente

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[Stewart, Robert]

Beman Dawes wrote
On Saturday, June 06, 2009 7:44 AM
>
> I'd like to add "notabug" as a ticket resolution choice. The use
> would be for tickets that complain about something that is in fact
> true, but is by design rather than being a bug.

Others have been using "wontfix" for that, haven't they?  If you think that's insufficient, I think "bydesign," the phrase you used to describe the state above, is a better choice.

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[Daniel James]

2009/6/6 vicente.botet <vicente.botet@...>:
>
> Is not worksforme equivalent to notabug?

No, 'worksforme' is for when the reported behaviour can't be
replicated, 'notabug' is for when it's intentional.
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[Paul A. Bristow-2]

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Stewart, Robert
> Sent: 06 June 2009 12:56
> To: boost@...
> Subject: Re: [boost] Ticket Resolutions
>
> Beman Dawes wrote
> On Saturday, June 06, 2009 7:44 AM

> I think "bydesign," the phrase you used to describe the state above, is a
better choice.

+1

OTOH 'notabug' might be used to imply that this isn't a bug - but that it
wasn't by conscious design - and could be improved later?

Paul

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[Beman Dawes]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:55 AM, vicente.botet<vicente.botet@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes@...>
> To: "Boost Developers list" <boost@...>
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 1:44 PM
> Subject: [boost] Ticket Resolutions
>
>
>>
>> I'd like to add "notabug" as a ticket resolution choice. The use would
>> be for tickets that complain about something that is in fact true, but
>> is by design rather than being a bug.
>>
>> In the past, I've marked these as "invalid". But I dislike doing so
>> because it sounds  as if I'm saying there is something wrong with the
>> ticket itself.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Is not worksforme equivalent to notabug? Could you give an example of a ticket so we can see a concrete case?

Ticket #1962 complained that on Linux, <boost/timer.hpp> didn't
measure wall clock time.

That's because it uses std::clock(), which is allowed to measure
something other than wall clock time.

So it doesn't work for me, either. I ended up calling it "wontfix"
because it is by design, and will be replaced by a much better timer
library in the near future.

--Beman
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[David Abrahams-3]

on Sat Jun 06 2009, "Paul A. Bristow" <pbristow-AT-hetp.u-net.com> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boost-bounces@... [mailto:boost-bounces@...]
> On
>> Behalf Of Stewart, Robert
>> Sent: 06 June 2009 12:56
>> To: boost@...
>> Subject: Re: [boost] Ticket Resolutions
>>
>> Beman Dawes wrote
>> On Saturday, June 06, 2009 7:44 AM
>
>> I think "bydesign," the phrase you used to describe the state above, is a
> better choice.
>
> +1

+1

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