On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 16:40:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 16:05:03 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
Well, the incorrect behavior is a liability whether we have an
issue for it in bugzilla or not. The issue itself is an asset.
IFF there is development process that ensure that old issues
are being reconsidered for every release. Having a process
where >3 year issues are being recorded in a document in a
structured fashion probably would be a good idea. Then they
could be used for planning. Without that they will most likely
never be included in any kind of plan? It is just easier to
ignore an "issue" that has been silently accepted for a decade
than a recent one.
And how are you ever going to implement such a development
process if you don't have the old bug reports lying around to
begin with? :)
I agree that the process you describe would be better than what
we currently have, but that does not mean what we currently have
is completely worthless.
