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Re: [patch] KFAIL gdb/1025
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: carlton at math dot stanford dot edu, drow at mvista dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:11:34 -0600
- Subject: Re: [patch] KFAIL gdb/1025
drow> I'm really not comfortable with this use of KFAIL. My hope was that we
drow> would analyze particular failures before KFAILing them off to oblivion.
drow> I spent time fixing these exact six failures a bit under a month ago;
drow> if it isn't working for your setup I want more information.
Well, there's a tension between 'getting work done' and 'checking
with other people'. In this particular case, waiting a few hours
would have drawn some info from me and Daniel J. We can't win them
all.
I'm more concerned about the 'KFAILing them off to oblivion'.
I foresee that we are going to have a culture clash over KFAIL.
To me, KFAIL means that the bug is known; but to everybody else,
it's going to take on the meaning that the bug is low-priority.
These properties are orthogonal but I can see KFAIL taking on that
twisted connotation.
Michael C