Officially, our developer notes (hard to find currently!) state that we close issues at the same time as we resolve them.
http://myfaces.apache.org/wiki/core/committer-and-pmc-guide/myfaces-developer-notes.html I don't know if Tobago is using a different methodology and I'm fine if we change or update what we do so long as it's consistent within a specific project and documented, but right now I'm seeing Tobago issues sometimes being closed and sometimes being resolved but not closed. I recommend that you pick something, document it above if it differs, and be consistent with it. Personally, I like to see issues resolved at the time of the fix, and closed at the time of a release with the fix, but that puts more work on the release manager.
