Doc #81246 [Com]: Issue tracker: Unclear description for status "Suspended"
Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81246&edit=1
ID: 81246
Comment by: ddpm at liscovius dot de
Reported by: chealer at gmail dot com
Summary: Issue tracker: Unclear description for status
"Suspended"
Status: Open
Type: Documentation Problem
Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The problem with the select status of bug is that it mixes several properties into a single select.
For instance a bug can be a duplicate of some other bug, but could be open/closed too.
Or a bug is open, verified and someone is assigned to it, but has nothing done with it for several
years, so it is calculated stale.
The priority of a bug could be normal, critical or suspended.
Previous Comments:
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[2021-07-18 14:36:08] chealer at gmail dot com
Tiffany, this ticket is an issue report about the description of the status named
"Suspended". This is *not* a request to go through any other "bugs" and do
anything about them - unless, of course, solving this would entail changing that status.
I do not know what you mean by "PR", but I cannot solve this by myself. I can tell that
the current description is unclear, but I do not know what its author meant or what it should read.
That being said, I could see 2 avenues to solve this:
1. Add a link on "the scope of the PHP developers" bringing to a document defining what
"the scope of the PHP developers" is
2. Augment the description so that readers do not need to know about "the scope of the PHP
developers". As mentioned in the Description, this can be done by "specifying all cases
which are either inside or outside that scope" (or both).
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[2021-07-11 14:51:32] tiffany@php.net
Unless you wish to volunteer yourself, and open a PR.
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[2021-07-11 14:50:59] tiffany@php.net
Can you clarify what your expectation for resolving this is?
If you're expecting someone to go through all suspended bugs and document the reasons they were
closed to provide as a list of cases, that isn't going to happen.
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[2021-07-11 14:12:59] chealer at gmail dot com
Description:
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https://bugs.php.net/search-howto.php offers the
following explanation for status Suspended:
> Suspended: Tickets which are waiting on some action which is outside the scope of the PHP
> developers.
As the meaning of "the scope of the PHP developers" is critical to that definition, it
would be important to clarify it by specifying all cases which are either inside or outside that
scope.
Ticket #77403 might offer some useful background to help determine this.
Test script:
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This does not report a behavioural bug.
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