I'm against this recommendation. Nothing more harmful to AOO reputation than an old unanswered problem because: Lack of basic respect to the person who took the time to report it. An indication for no control over the project.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014, at 11:52, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: > Hi, > > currently the manual on > <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/describekeywords.cgi> seems to suggest to > use that keyword also for problems what appeared between OOo 1.0.2 and > OOo 1.0.3. Such use might be correct as a matter of form, but I think > useless for QA and developers daly work. > > "regression" key word indicates a major priority for fixing a bug, > because appearance of new problems is bad for AOO's reputation. But a > regression between OOo 1.0.0 and OOo 1.0.1 from 2001 (as an overstated > example) is nothing what should cause major reputation loss for AOO in 2014. > > So I recommend to limit use of Keyword "regression" for all Problems > what appeared with AOO 3.4-dev or later and to add a corresponding hint > in Bugzilla Help. > > BTW: I recommend to keep those hints in Bugzilla short (not more than 2 > text rows or so) and do link to more elaborated help in the Wiki (for > example). > > Best regards > > Rainer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
