Follow-up Comment #12, bug #60927 (group groff):

Hi Keith,

At 2025-08-24T17:32:34-0400, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?111303
> Okay, but unfortunately, that's not immediately helpful.

Not immediately, no, but in the past the Savannah admins/Savane
developers have been responsive to my wishlist requests.  So I'll cross
my fingers.

>> I've annotated several _groff_ ticket summaries with '[not our
>> problem]' over the years, but one [can] infer harshness from that,
>> too.[1]
> Perhaps.  To me, "invalid" implies that the original submission is
> defective.

It doesn't to me, but then I may be more literal-minded (bloody-minded?)
than some users of the tracker.

> When I was managing the MinGW trackers, we had additional
> classification choices for "outdated", (meaning that it had ceased to
> be our problem), "self⁠-⁠service", (meaning that we thought the issue
> was the user's to resolve), and "non⁠-⁠mingw", (meaning that we
> thought that the issue should be referred elsewhere).  Perhaps you
> could consider adding similar additional field values for _groff_'s
> tracker?  (Even adding just "inapplicable" would offer a potentially
> less apparently harsh option).

Not being William James, I would prefer not to finely categorize the
varieties of invalid experience.  I think making the field value
definitions publicly visible would kill this bird and several others.

Thus I could be swayed if #111303 above sees no action.  I filed it just
the other day, so I ask for a little patience.

Regards,
Branden



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