Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > As far as the BTS is concerned, it is irrelevant how a bug is fixed.
>
> Wrong. The BTS is a front-end to users. When bugs are closed, the
> submitter(a normal user) is notified. This notification *must* include a
> user-oriented response. "This is fixed" is not such a response.
"This is fixed" is the only response that makes sense to every bug
submitter.
It doesn't matter how good a description you give about how a bug
was fixed, unless the reporter verifies it for himself, he will never
know for sure whether you really have fixed the bug or not.
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