announcing bug discovery and fixes

[Denys Duchier]

sgelkins at bellsouth.net (Steve Elkins) writes:

> What about [BUG] and [FIX] for each of these?

I already thought about it and rejected the idea. (1) it's an
unnecessarily fine granularity - it might be useful if we expected a
large volume of messages that need to be classified; but we certainly
don't expect that. (2) [ANN] has the advantage of clearly and simply
identifying an official announcement; and I certainly don't want users
to start thinking that they can post [BUG] messages, which is
guaranteed to happen, should we choose to go that way.

Now, I certainly expect the subject line to contain a clear indication
of what the message is about, whether bug discovery, bug fix, or other
announcement.

Cheers,

-- 
Dr. Denys Duchier			Denys.Duchier at ps.uni-sb.de
Forschungsbereich Programmiersysteme	(Programming Systems Lab)
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