license of support files for bug 154602

[J. Paul Reed]

On 09 Jul 2003 at 08:00:49, Gervase Markham moved bits on my disk to say:

> But, in fact, I think I've got a new one :-) I would like Bugzilla to be
> a credible enterprise bug-tracking system. Whether it's a fair or unfair
> conclusion for them to draw, I don't believe it would give a more
> favourable impression to admins evaluating Bugzilla if they went into the
> params and saw "Enable smiley support in comments? [Yes|No]". What
> message does this give them about our priorities in development?

I'm inclined to agree with you, but to answer your question, none.

If they know *anything* about open source, they will know one of its
principle tenants is code gets developed because a developer wants to
scratch their own itches (or the itches they're paid to scratch).

If smiley support in comments was one developer's itch, the fact that
support for it exists in Bugzilla merely means we allowed it into the tree.
Anyone who looks for any more meaning than that is drawing illogical
conclusions. 

We should *never* make decisions based upon what some "enterprise" software
procurer *might* think about when they see (or don't see) a feature.
Remember, these are the same idiots buying Microsoft's shit year after year
because they saw some ad in PC Week.

Having said that, I agree with you; I don't see the point of smileys in
comments, and I wouldn't want to waste time fixing this feature if it ever
broke. Tally up one vote for keeping this, like some other really useful
patches (drop down menus, anyone?) as a patch-only sort of a thing.

I wouldn't be opposed to distributing the images + the patch and
instructions in their own directory in contrib (since there *are* images
with this one).

Later,
Paul
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