Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:00:38 -0200


Em Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:54:58PM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu:
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> >One thing we've done before in other bug-tracking systems was to create
> >a "STALE" state (or something similar) for this type of bug. So it
> >wouldn't get closed (I have seen this done as a closing resolution, but
> >I think that's a bad idea), but it wouldn't be in the default searches
> >either ... you could just select it if you wanted it ... does that sound
> >sane? (obviously we don't need this yet, but might be a good plan
> >longer-term).

> Personally... if they really are bugs, I would rather keep them open,
> even in the absence of a maintainer... maybe that's not scalable, but
> I would rather not auto-expire things which really are bugs. The
> maintainer (or "someone who cares") may not appear until the next stable
> series, for example. Vendors do that alot.

Jeff, ok, so we could do as vendors: mark the ticket as LATER, or whatever
that doesnt make clearly stale tickets that nobody is looking appear on
the default queries.

If somebody is _so_ interested in a particular feature he/she can look for
tickets marked LATER, add comments and state that he/she is working on it,
provide more info, etc.

> 'stale' may be a decent compromise if people disagree with my logic,
> though...

:-)

- Arnaldo
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