Stuart Ballard wrote: >So would you [...] allow bugs to be kept secret >indefinitely if a fix is provided? > No. No bug should ever be kept confidental infinitely. All bugs should be, in any case, opened after about 6 months. That's another defect in the current proposal IMO.
Information about bugs is important to
* learn about earlier errors (developers)
* review, how a bug has been treated (developers and users)
* know, why particular code is there in that way (developers)
