+1 - Asiri
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > We've had a quick discussion with Thomas on IRC regarding the strategy we > want to adopt for issues we don't plan to fix. Here's my POV: > > * We should close issues that we know we won't fix. We might not want to > fix them for several reasons but one of these reason is that the issue is > for an old XE version. Especially since we said that we're only supporting > the last 2 versions. We = xwiki committers, but if any committer wants to > fix an old issue he's free to do it of course, it's just a general rule. > * An option would be to leave them open and wait for a patch but I don't > think it's a good idea, because: > - it sends the wrong signals that we're going to fix the issue > - the issue can still be found with a search even if closed > - when we close it then the reporter can explain why it's so important for > him, or not. Which we wouldn't know if we hadn't closed it > - contributors could reopen them and attach a patch or just create a new > issue > - it means that for all other issues we plan to fix them at some point > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
