Re: [boost] Policy: "preferred" method of reporting bugs

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-03 16:17:12

Edward Diener wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://boost.org/more/bugs.htm still says that the preferred way to
>>>> report bugs is to send an email message.  Do we really mean that?
>>>> It's way more reliable to open a Trac ticket.  Is there any reason not
>>>> to change the "preferred" approach?
>>> That might well lead to zillion Trac tickets to triage. It might make
>>> sense to use a policy similar to subversion's:
>>>
>>> 1. Post to list
>>> 2. If somebody agrees it looks like a bug, and nobody jumps and
>>> immediately fixes it, enter to Trac
>> That sounds better to me, because bugs posted to the list often get 
>> fixed a lot faster. But I'd modify it slightly:
>>
>> 1. Post to list.
>> 2. If it doesn't get fixed immediately, and no one points out it isn't 
>> really a bug, create a Trac bug report.
> 
> Are errors in documentation considered bugs ?

Yes. At least that's my opinion. The severity of documentation errors 
ranges from unimportant to critical, so the priority of doc bugs ranges 
from low to high accordingly.

--Beman