NB: Please don't remove the attribution; it makes it much more difficult to follow what you're saying.
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006, Jari Aalto wrote: > | > - 'usertags' is mainly unused compared to standard "tags" feature. > | > > | > A common sense suggests that there are reports that are not bugs. > | > | If they're not bugs, then they should probably just be closed with an > | informative message. > > They are, but a "notbug" sign would also be appropriate. Being > standard tag and not random usertag, would bring quality to the BTS > (I feel so). It would be a new tag that developers would have to know about to use. Developers who don't already know about how to use usertags are also unlikely to learn about this tag either. > This is my experience, which of cource, is not a generalization. But > I have a hunch that this is the case among most of the developers. > They do their stuff, only very few may be aware of usertags, even > less use them. And if used, the tags attached attached varies > bringing diversity that cannot be machine processed (statictics > ...), like counting "notbug" would. If they don't care to learn about usertags, then it seems to me that they feel the extant tags are sufficient. > I don't have lot to convince other than these posts. If a study > needs to be conducted over BTS before enough argements could be > taken into consideration -- yet the results may be uncertain -- I'm > afraid, there is no-one to put that much effort to get a single and > simple thing added to the BTS. All I'm asking is for people who want this tag added to use the tag using usertags, and provide some evidence that the tag will actually be useful; to date, all that's been done is argue about what the tag will be called, (faq, notabug, notbug, leftfield, blahblahblah) not people actually going out and using the tag. Don Armstrong -- There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
