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Re: macro issues

Will Glass-Husain
Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:44:34 -0800

Great, will do.

A little more detail on when I think we should mark WONTFIX (lets
discuss).  I think it's nice to have enhancement requests/future
thoughts in JIRA.  The "wont fix" is rather offputting.

There's a continuum for responses to enhancement requests..
-- committers really enthusiastic about idea; will certainly go in
-- idea fits with philosophical direction of tool, might go in but not right now
-- idea is from left field, will likely not go in

I'd suggest we always leave the first two bullets as open issues.
Helps capture usage details, example cases, mailing list threads.

The third is a matter of judgement.  Doesn't hurt to occasionally
leave a creative idea open, but more often we should provide feedback
and (if appropriate) ask the poster to move sample code to the wiki.

A good rule of thumb should be that all active committers believe an
idea is "from left field" in order to mark WONTFIX.  Or at least that
it's ok for a committer who's interested in immediate reopen the
issue.

Just my thoughts.  Comments?

WILL

On 11/6/06, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Will Glass-Husain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Sure, go ahead. I thought the wiki page to be sufficient but if you feel
more comfortable with having it in JIRA, I'm all +1 for that.

        Best regards
                Henning


>Henning,

>I noticed you closed all the Macro-related JIRA issues.  I see this as
>a usability barrier and something we should definitely address in a
>future version.  In particular, the need to be able to #parse a file
>that includes macros is important.

>I'd like to reopen the issues.  They serve as a reminder to address
>these issues for 1.6.
>But I don't want to get into a open/close/open/close fight.  Any
>comments before I do this?

>(see 
http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/geir/archives/001414_somtimes_process_is_good_somtimes_not.html
>)

>WILL

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