Hi *,
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:54:31PM +0200, Joerg Barfurth wrote:
> Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
> >[...]
> >issues that won't be dealt with by Sun because of workload, bad
> >effort/gain ratio, of no interest because StarOffice has commercial
> >replacement, ... ("We won't implement it, but just go ahead and povide a
> >patch") should not be closed wontfix but "worksforme" with TM
> >"OOoPleaseHelp" (unless there is a dedicated resolution for this kind of
> >stuff)
>
> I don't agree that they should be closed. An issue that is closed to me
> is gone. I would exclude it from any queries, except post-mortem
> statistical evaluations.
That is exactly the idea behind closing it. Get it out of the way, leave
the issues that are being worked on/that have not yet been decided upon.
> It might be assigned to a dummy owner and/or we might use the useless
> RESOLVED-LATER status for it, but we should not close it.
I disagree, mainly because of working on the open issues gets easier
when the issues that nobody's working on are not in the way.
If you don't close them, you'll have to exclude the target OOoPleaseHelp
in every query again and again..
> The most important characteristic of such an issue is that
> - it is OPEN
> - it has target milestone OOoPleaseHelp
My opinion is: Open issues are those that some action is going to be
taken. To me it doesn't make sense to have issues open that nobody
is/will be working on. Leaving it open may signal to the reporter that
the issue is handled. Closing it makes clear that unless someone
interested takes care of the issue, it will never see the light of day.
Closing it with an appropriate comment may even result in the reporter
searching for "independent" developers actively while such "pressure" is
not createn by leaving the issue open and letting it rot...
ciao
Christian
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