Consider the following, there are a lot more PHP users then PHP developers and considering that not all PHP developers are actively involved in the bug solving process (many are involved with PEAR/PECL/Documentation and so on) there are very few people actively working on resolving bugs. This makes the time of these people very valuable, people who post invalid bug reports eat up that valuable time and by doing so not only cause a loss of bug fixing time but also disillusion developers and often make them move on to more exciting things like writing new code.
Perhaps a slightly less then an absolutely polite approach, will make those people reconsider their bug posting technique and do a little research before deciding that their non-working script constitutes a valid bug report and start wasting everyone's time. Most of the time when a bug is marked bogus the developer will indicate why the bug is bogus, so that the user is not left in the dark. All that said, I see nothing especially inflammatory about 'bogus' and I do not believe it is the intent of the developers to insult or degrade the user who had posted a bogus report. The 'invalid' status that was proposed, in my opinion, just as 'unfriendly' as bogus. Ilia -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
