Re: macro issues

[Henning P. Schmiedehausen]

"Will Glass-Husain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>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.

While I agree with that, I still say that we want to close issues at
some point. And "wontfix" is IMHO a valid response. Issues falling in
the middle category will always be subject to discussion anyway, so we
can move these to the mailing list / Wiki.

If we keep issues open indefinitely we will always have nn open issues
for any given part of the system. Next to being "bad press" (and we
all remember people showing up here and bean-counting open bugs, don't
we?), they also tend to hide the real bug reports.

I agree that we could resolve as "Later". :-) 

        Best regards
                Henning


>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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