[239] in testers
where do we discuss bugs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 13 02:17:05 1989
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 02:16:44 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In a recent message in the bugs discuss meeting, Dan announced that
the qa team is once again going to start answering all bug reports
sent to the bugs mailing list. He was, of course, strongly implying
that everybody else should stop responding to messages by sending mail
to bugs :-).
No, my question is this.... I just saw a bug report about the new
release currently in testing, and I do not consider what was reported
to be a "bug" (Ref. bugs[2819]). My question is, where do I talk
about this? If we are not allowed to discuss things in bugs, where do
we move the discussions to?
I know that the reason people are discouraged from posting to bugs
is because the traffic should be kept to a minimum so that Henry et al
don't get deluged with discussions r{ther than bug reports, but it
seems to me that we need some way to discuss bug reports, especially
when they relate to a new release and might involve "implementation
decisions" rather than bugs.
Seeing no other choice, I will send my comments about the message to
which I referred to testers. Does anybody have a problem with this,
or a better idea?
Also, of course, should I cc to bugs, or does that defeat the whole
purpose? But if I don't cc to them, they'll never know the discussion
takes place (possibly, at least), and they might act on the initial
message without being aware of subsequent developments.
I'm just confused. :-)
jik
