Expected Behavior and Other Engineering Lies

1 · Alan Storm · March 24, 2020, 4 a.m.
A bit of a coda to my post on Symfony HttpClient — I reported the bug to the Symfony project and it was, unsurprisingly, closed with one of those annoying engineering responses: Expected Behavior. In this case Expected Behavior means We acknowledge the behavior and don’t know how to fix it right now and don’t want to research how to fix it right now so we’re going to close the issue Which is fair, I guess, except for the closing the issue part. I’ve always thought it’s OK to have known issues/de...