Hi, all. The question I'm interested in getting help with here will make more sense if you look at the LEP first:
https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/CloseBugsLeaveDiscussionsOpen In short, we want to be able to close bugs in a way that will be friendlier and leave discussions open. We're considering doing this by adding a new status. This status would work like the closed bug statuses we have now, WONTFIX and INVALID. It would, however, be named differently to communicate that discussion is free to continue. We have debated a few terms and tentatively settled on OPINION. This is not a perfect term, but it's hard to come up with something better. I'm wondering if any of the excellent minds here can think of a better term. Please see all the previously considered terms on the LEP before proposing something new. I know this question could be open to a lot of debate, but please keep in mind I'm only asking for help with the naming of this status. Mark, Jono L, and I have already discussed off list the idea that more statuses are bad, alternate solutions that don't require a new status, and more. Every solution is imperfect for this. We're interested in trying this as an experiment, and if it's done right, it would solve a particular problem prevalent in some of the communities using Launchpad bugs -- namely that people won't allow a bug to be closed because they want to continue discussing the issues around the bug. We'll be keeping metrics on this as its added, and if it proves to not make any difference, we'll back out the status and change bugs using OPINION (or whatever it ends up being called) to WONTFIX. If you want to discuss the issues around the proposal more generally, please ping me or Jono L. offlist, or start a new thread on the mailing list. So.... any ideas for a better term for this potential new status OPINION? :-) Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
