Nick Coghlan wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> One issue to consider is also politeness. People sometimes complain that >> they feel treated unfair if their report is declared "invalid" - they >> surely believed it was a valid report, at the time they made it. > > I agree with Martin for both of these - 'works for me' and 'out of date' > convey additional information to the originator of the bug, even if they > don't make a signifcant difference from a development point of view.
The term 'works for me' can be confused with 'solution/patch works for me'. I've generally seen the phrase 'works for me' to mean agreement of a proposed action of some sort. Maybe something along the lines of 'can not reproduce' would be better? Ron > I'd prefer to keep an outright 'invalid' for the cases where the > reporter was either genuinely wrong about the intended behaviour, or > where the bug report itself is manifestly inadequate (e.g. "I tried to > do xyz and it broke" with no further details). > > Cheers, > Nick. > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
