- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:09:47 +0200
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:52:10 +0200, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> That would imply be'ing cc'd on all bug changes, right? > > Isn't this the reason why bugzilla spams public-html: To make every > participant of the group aware of all filed bugs without CCing? Maybe, but when there are a thousand messages in the last couple of months it is more likely to mean that anyone who doesn't have the luxury to follow the list full-time instead misses everything. The study of how many things people can keep track of is pretty old now ([1] is a pretty seminal example). A massive flow of information is a known tactic to ensure a semblance of openness while making it very difficult for anyone to actually understand. So hypertextual information (linking things backwards and forwards to other things - something that has a couple of millenia of history but has really taken off with the development of electronic hypertextual systems such as the Web) is an important tool for ensuring that people actually understand what is happening. > (It should have been clear from the bug summary without being CCed for > later bug comments that if FIXED, the bug would result in <s>, <strike> > or both becoming conforming.) I don't think that follows. If I filed a bug whose summary is "longdesc is missing", then it isn't clear to me that FIXING the bug means longdesc arrives - there are other potential ways of fixing the underlying problem, and whatever I think of them in practice they are all theoretically ways to fix the bug. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
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