On 3/11/09 5:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/3/11 Brion Vibber<br...@wikimedia.org>:
>> On 3/11/09 9:59 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> 2009/3/11 Brion Vibber<br...@wikimedia.org>:
>>>>>> Is there a fix for this bug?
>>>> It was fixed several years ago, shouldn't happen on anything current. :P
>>> March 2009 seems pretty current to me...
>> Hence "shouldn't" and ":P"
>
> Hence "I'll fix it, give me a minute!"? (Or, more likely, "I'll tell
> someone to fix it, give them a minute!") Comments from developers
> about bugs really should be about fixing them... Saying it shouldn't
> be happening doesn't help much.

Quite the opposite -- it's extremely relevant to indicate familiarity 
with a similar issue in the past, which may have regressed or may have a 
related cause and fix.

-- brion

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