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From: "Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@libero.it>
To: "Nathanael Nerode" <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
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	"Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for new keywords in bugzilla
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 14:03:00 -0000
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

>> I think the biggest difference is between diagnostic bugs which are
request
>> for enhancements and not strictly necessary, and diagnostic bugs which
are
>> really bugs (or at least, can be considered as such). And this difference
>> is already taken into account by the Severity of the bug. In other words
I
>> suggest that your missing-diagnostic be simply a diagnostic keyword with
>> Severity = enhancement, and you misleading-diagnostic be a diagnostic
>> keyword with Severity != enhancement.

> This isn't *exactly* what I was thinking of.  A missing diagnostic might
> be a warning which is supposed to trigger and doesn't.  A misleading
> diagnostic would be one which triggers but shouldn't.
>
> It may be that the distinction is not valuable.  I defer to others.


Since we got no more comments on this issue, I'm creating a new keyword
"diagnostic" for now, and removing all the [diagnostic] stamps. We can still
split diagnostic into smaller parts later if we need. OTOH, Gaby never asked
for it.

Giovanni Bajo