From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24211 invoked by alias); 8 Aug 2005 02:41:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24197 invoked by uid 48); 8 Aug 2005 02:41:35 -0000 Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:41:00 -0000 From: "igodard at pacbell dot net" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Message-ID: <20050808024133.23281.igodard@pacbell.net> Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug other/23281] New: Miscategorization of quality-of-implementation reports X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00772.txt.bz2 List-Id: This DR reflects bug report #23263 (q.v.) but addresses a larger issue. That report has been categorized as an "enhancement request". Should this and other reports about diagnostic quality be treated as "enhancement requests"? I suppose tht it depends on what you consider "correctness". If correctness means "conforming to standard", then any diagnostic will do, including "something wrong found somewhere in program". Personally I use a different standard of "correct", which includes "usable", and so addresses issues like compilation time measured in days as well as quality of diagnostic. I understand that the gcc implementation community has a notion of "QOI" (quality of implementation) which reflects much of what I call "usable". But I would distinguish a "defect of QOI" from an "enhancement request"; the latter being something nice to have, but the former impacting real usage. I put this particular DR (#23262) in the "defect of QOI" category. Even if you do not, you probably can select a non-empty set of DRs that are truly "defects" and not mere "enhancement requests. Consequently I'm filing this DR against the gcc DR reporting machinery itself, rather than against the compiler in particular. There needs to be categories for QOI defects of varying severity; either that, or complaints about diagnostics and other QOI ussues should not by policy be filed as "enhancement requests", and forgotten. -- Summary: Miscategorization of quality-of-implementation reports Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: other AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: igodard at pacbell dot net CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23281