Hi Andrew,

> I would think that if the defect merited the allocation of the developrs
> time to implement the fix it merits the time to be tested to the extent
> needed for release. The fact will remain that only the development
> staff involved can judge what that effort really is.
> 
> Look at it this way, was it really the best allocation of the developers
> time - a very tight resource, I hae no doubt, if the resoures to do what
> is necessary to get the fruits of their effort out to the users is not
> also made available?

I could imagine various reason why a bug is fixed though it's targeted
for "Later", amongst them
- "it was fun, and I still needed my weekly fun on Friday" :)
- while investigating how serious this issue is, I immediately found a
  fix, and it would have been waste to not check it in
- I stumbled upon this during completely unrelated work, and fixed it
  by passing

All of this may justify that the fix is still *made*, but not yet that
it's include in 2.0.x.

> But - Speaking of useful allocation of time, - enough of this subject
> for me perhaps. Just slip on into
> Issuzilla and target it for 2.0.3..no one will notice that you did it...
> ;-)

:)
I doubt that. You don't imagine how strict 2.0.x targets can be handled
by some people ;)

(not to mention that I still didn't look at the issue which caused all
this, still just dicussing the more general aspects)

Ciao
Frank

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