Perfect, thank you Edward.
> On Aug 4, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Edward Welbourne <edward.welbou...@qt.io> wrote: > > Patrick Stinson (3 August 2017 18:43) >> I have filed bug reports before but am not sure where the line between >> bug discovery and bug reporting is. For example in this case I am >> partly asking if widget focus is supposed to work this way to avoid a >> superfluous bug report. But it sounds like I should just report based >> on my judgement in the future? > > As a rough rule of thumb, if the software's behaviour violates the [0] > principle of least surprise - e.g. by doing something weird that's not > what you expected - and you can't find documentation that overtly says > that's what you should have expected, then it's worth reporting. It > might just be that we neglected to document it, or the documentation was > too hard to find, but even then we need the bug report, to fix that. In > other cases, it'll mean the software is wrong - the more traditional bug. > > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment > (OK, so it has aliases) > > Eddy. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
