On Sun, 04 Feb 2018, "Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <kings...@loaner.com> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I find I often benefit from other people's point > of view. > > If you happen to have the time, and are so > inclined, and it would be comfortable, feel free > to elaborate on your comment in bug report #889493. > > I'm particularly curious why you wrote it had no > merit.
If you look closely, you'll notice that I didn't actually write that, but never mind. For anything worthwhile to conceivably come out of such a bug, at least one TC member would need to be at least a little interested in discussing it, in which case they would certainly reopen the bug, and we'd then continue as if I'd done nothing. I look at that as simply changing the default state of the incoming bug to closed[1]. Of course one would normally go to the effort of pointing out the specific flaws in the submission, but I'm not going to do that in this case because I wouldn't want to give the false impression that if only you'd done a few things differently it would have been considered. Submitting this bug demonstrates to me that you have fundamentally misunderstood the purpose and power of the Technical Committee. Once that misunderstanding is rectified, you will no longer be tempted to submit the bug in any form. The fact that the original bug also fails to conform with most of the bug submission guidelines is irrelevant. To draw an analogy, you might as well spend your time writing to the Oxford English Dictionary complaining about the inclusion of words you don't like (although please don't, as they also have more useful things to be doing than discarding post). Cheers, Phil. [1] I could imagine us doing that with all bugs in fact -- if the first person to get to the bug doesn't see it as worth discussing they simply close it and leave other members of the TC to reopen it if they disagree. This is much more efficient than leaving it open until after the next meeting, and doesn't give a false impression about what is happening to the submitter. I can think of a couple of recent bugs that would have benefited from this approach ;-) -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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