2017-02-03 20:13 GMT+01:00 James E. Lang <[email protected]>: > That's an interesting point of view Tom. > > In my opinion any unannounced regression is a proper subject for a bug > report and a new capability is the subject for a feature request. But, I'm > not a developer. > > It would be nice if ordinary dictionary definitions applied to the words > used! > > -- > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Davies <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 7:44 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.3 glitches > > Hi :) > Right now is a good time to post bug-reports and "feature requests". > > "Feature requests" are what most 'normal' (ie non-devs) of us think of as > bugs. It includes features that used to work but now don't and features > that don't quite work at all. > > "Bug reports" are only things that cause the program or entire system to > crash (or that escalate privileges to super-users/ super-user/ > administrator - but as normal users we probably wouldn't notice such > escalation). In chatting with each other we often call things "bugs" or > say a thing is "buggy" but if it doesn't crash the system or cause it to > close unexpectedly, then it doesn't fit the developers notion of "bug", so > there is no point posting a bug-report about it - instead post as a > feature-request. > > Similarly with the term "stable". However badly a thing behaves, such as > familiar functionality suddenly not working, then the devs don't think of > that as showing the program is unstable. A program is only unstable if it > crashes (or maybe that escalation thing) or if it crashes the whole > system. LibreOffice is particularly unlikely to do either of those things > - there is a measurement of that sort of stability and LibreOffice scores > extraordinarily highly, far above much more respected or well-known > software. > > It is nice to hear about good&bad issues with new the branch of LibreOffice > as it allows us to be better prepared for the questions that 'normal' users > are likely to ask on this mailing list. However reporting an issue to this > mailing list is extremely unlikely to result in the issue being (what we > would probably refer to as being) fixed. > > > Right now is probably the best time for doing proper bug-reports and > feature-requests because it's the time when the greatest percentage of devs > are focused on this branch and most interested in it's outcomes. > > Regards from > Tom :) >
The usage with which I am familiar corresponds to that mentioned by James above ; i e, «any unannounced regression is a proper subject for a bug report and a new capability is the subject for a feature request» .... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
