The problem with the values is that it's only a requirement on the team's behalf. The team manual is also primarily for the team in terms of responding to users - thing is, neither xrunner nor I are team members.
Validity is fine :)
1) If you notice, he wasn't deciding whether it was a problem in SMF. He was trying to find out *why* it is a problem. Because, as quite rightly pointed out, spaces were added for a reason relating to readability. If there is a reason for not having the spaces for a given language, then it needs to be flagged up.
Since when did personal aesthetic preferences get flagged as bugs? I don't like the shade of blue in the header, is that a bug?
There IS a legitimate case of a rogue space that was a bug, but that was only a much later thing, the original topic did not have the unbalanced spaces in it.
2. This is why he was trying to get to the bottom of it. Is it a legitimate bug in SMF? Is it a personal preference? Is there a related bug?
The answers to which are no, yes, and yes. But blindly answering the guy's question would have seen them answers as yes, no and no, a very different picture.
A lot of the issue is that xrunner pushed it when others didn't - but if I hadn't realised what a stupid waste of time it would turn out to be, I'd have been pretty much the same. The question then becomes: would you guys have treated me any differently? The answer, of course, is yes. This is what it comes down to: one member is being hounded for being blunt with someone and others who have more standing in the community are not, even when objectively their attitude can be perceived to be worse.
Validity is fine :)
1) If you notice, he wasn't deciding whether it was a problem in SMF. He was trying to find out *why* it is a problem. Because, as quite rightly pointed out, spaces were added for a reason relating to readability. If there is a reason for not having the spaces for a given language, then it needs to be flagged up.
Since when did personal aesthetic preferences get flagged as bugs? I don't like the shade of blue in the header, is that a bug?
There IS a legitimate case of a rogue space that was a bug, but that was only a much later thing, the original topic did not have the unbalanced spaces in it.
2. This is why he was trying to get to the bottom of it. Is it a legitimate bug in SMF? Is it a personal preference? Is there a related bug?
The answers to which are no, yes, and yes. But blindly answering the guy's question would have seen them answers as yes, no and no, a very different picture.
A lot of the issue is that xrunner pushed it when others didn't - but if I hadn't realised what a stupid waste of time it would turn out to be, I'd have been pretty much the same. The question then becomes: would you guys have treated me any differently? The answer, of course, is yes. This is what it comes down to: one member is being hounded for being blunt with someone and others who have more standing in the community are not, even when objectively their attitude can be perceived to be worse.