| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
"Since this looks like a bug, it will never get fixed unless you enter
a QAR for it..."
The above is taken from another notes file (without permission),
but it raises an example of... I'm not sure what. Bad syntax? Poor
choice of words? Muddy thinking?
Presumably if it didn't *look* like a bug the problem would be
fixed immediately?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1013.1 | looks well-worded to me | COOKIE::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Sat Oct 24 1992 11:26 | 12 |
> "Since this looks like a bug, it will never get fixed unless you
> enter a QAR for it..."
>> Presumably if it didn't *look* like a bug the problem would be fixed
>> immediately?
No. If it looks like a bug, then a QAR is the *only* mechanism for a
change. For non bugs, such as unfriendly "features" or incompletely
implemented specifications, there are other mechanisms such as formal
requests for "functionality" enhancements as part of the phase process.
But nothing will happen immediately, or even soon, no matter what
mechanism is invoked. :-(
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| 1013.2 | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Sun Oct 25 1992 18:39 | 7 | |
It should say "Since this looks like a bug, it will never get fixed
IF you enter a QAR for it."
In order to submit an absence-of-quality assurance report, you have
to enter a QAR...NOT! in the appropriate database.
Followups to the DECspeak note elsewhere in this conference.
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