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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: APRs (FLAME ON)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 18:45:09 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.173756.24708@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
>In article <9104082143.AA24021@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) writes:
>>The subject says most of it -- I'm ticked at HP's APR 'resolution' method.
>>Consider FLAME ON through this whole thing.
>>
>>3) Their response is that this is not a bug -- it is working within specs.
>>   The comment was that "When the wildcard specification has no match, as far
>>   as lst is concerned it is quivalent (sic) to mot specifying any pathname."
>>   THEY GAVE ME THE BEHAVIOR, AND SAID THAT IT'S OKAY, SINCE IT BEHAVES LIKE
>>   IT BEHAVES!!!!!
>
>I have had a bunch of APRs "resolved" with this now-classic response too -
>the person who thought up "working within specs" should have got a big pay
>raise. This is how you reduce the APR count and claim that this is the best
>quality software ever: Bugs? What bugs? I don't see any bugs!
>(Maybe it's a "feature" :-) ). In addition, they can add one to the list
>of closed APRs for SR10.4.

Another classic example is the response to my APR about /com/tpm. We found
out users can use tpm when crp'ing on or rsh/rlogin/telnet to change
mouse/touchpad device sensitivity on the node. I filed an APR complaing about
it. All it would take Apollo to fix is adding a pad_$isa_dm_pad call
to the program. The response, on the other hand, gave the classic answer of
"it's a feature, not a bug".



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