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by youarentrightjr 79 days ago
See my reply to eminence32 - bug tracking serves as a list of known defects, not as a list of work the engineers are going to do this [day/month/year].
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grey-area 78 days ago
The primary purpose is not usually a list of known defects and many ‘bugs’ are not actually bugs but feature requests or misunderstandings from users (e.g. RFC disallows the data you want my html parser to allow).
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youarentrightjr 78 days ago
> The primary purpose is not usually a list of known defects and many ‘bugs’ are not actually bugs but feature requests

IME there are separate mechanisms to track feature work, bug trackers are for... bugs.

> or misunderstandings from users (e.g. RFC disallows the data you want my html parser to allow).

Again, this is a class of bug report that nobody is arguing should stay open.

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grey-area 77 days ago
The people who filed them would disagree and many would vehemently argue that their bug is in fact a bug, and is the most important bug and how dare you close it.
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