Re: 2.4 enhancements in the release notes

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

OK, thanks for the feedback Elijah. That seems a reasonable argument.
I'll just leave it worded the way it is.

Cheers,
John

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 16:47, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 15:30, John Fleck wrote:
> > I'd be a happier guy if someone had the time to actually go through the
> > 114 bugs returned by that query and see how many of them really deserve
> > the claim "user-requested enhancements". I think hackers' responsiveness
> > to user requests is important and worth bragging on, but I don't want to
> > oversell this point with a big number that's not justifiable.
> 
> You correctly point out that a simple query doesn't tell the whole
> story--there are likely many of those 114 that wouldn't qualify. 
> However, you seem to have missed the other end--namely that not all
> enhancements are marked as such.  I think the statement, as written, is
> fine to include.  But, if someone really wants to go to the trouble of
> sifting through which of those 114 bugs are accurate, then one will also
> have to sift through several hundred (or perhaps even thousand) more
> bugs to see which other ones weren't marked as enhancement but really
> were such and belonged on this list.
> 
> > Anyone up for the task of pawing through those bugs and telling me how
> > many qualify?
> 
> Considering the fact that I don't think going through just these 114
> bugs would give you an accurate number, I don't think that this is
> really a task that I want to take on.  I consider it totally valid to
> leave the claim as you have it now, on the grounds that you'll probably
> remove just as many from the list as what you'll add.  
> 
> [Granted, this isn't scientific or exact, but it's my gut feeling having
> gone through several thousand bug reports this year.  And considering
> all the cleaning that could be done to bugzilla in the amount of time
> it'd take to accomplish this task, I feel perfectly fine leaving your
> claim as is.  Of course, if someone else wants to, by all means do so.]
> 
> > Thanks,
> > John
> 
> Just my $0.02,
> Elijah
> 
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