I think it'd be ok to call those examples bugs. In professional programming contexts I've always used 'bug' in a wide sense, meaning any sort of flaw or issue in a system that causes user-visible bad behavior. It could be a programming mistake, a design flaw, or even a problem with a dependency. (Conversely, if there's no user-visible bad behavior, I wouldn't call it a bug; maybe it'd be an improvement.)
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 6:51 AM Roman Leventov <leven...@apache.org> wrote: > There have been many times, and several in the last few days ( > https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/issues/8291, > https://github.com/apache/incubator-druid/issues/8263) when I wanted to > label an issue as 'bug' but the semantics of the word "bug" don't really > apply. For me, "bug" means "somebody made a programming mistake at some > point". This doesn't apply to the issues linked above. I would say about > them "the system, as it is currently implemented, fails (or may fail) under > certain circumstances and shall be improved". PRs which would fix these > issues shall be labelled 'Improvement'. > > I think renaming 'bug' into 'defect' would be useful to broaden the > applicability of the label. >
