Hi all,
On Mon, 13 May 2013, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
This isn't political equivocating. Its a genuine call to the community
to tell us how we can make things better.
If I may make a suggestion to be considered by the community:
The status WONTFIX sounds awfully rude to me. It's like saying "That's a
pony and you can't have one, ever." It implies a terminal finality which
actually isn't meant in some cases, because it is possible (as we've seen)
and even sometimes recommended by a core developer, for a sufficiently
determined person to push for change on the mailing list and make it
happen.
Perhaps there's a case for a status like "DISCUSSION" or "NEEDINFO" when a
feature might be accepted if sufficient evidence for it comes to light,
but that evidence isn't there yet.
I'd like to feel that reload() and first() are cases where a core
developer might choose to close a ticket with this new status instead of
WONTFIX. I would also hope that the core developers might be gentler with
newbies like me instead of scaring us off with a gruff one-word reply of
WONTFIX.
I think there is value in people "voting" for a feature on the ticket if
they don't feel up to arguing the case on the mailing list (which is a
trial by fire, and not for the faint hearted). Whoever is brave enough to
take up the issue on the mailing list can point to the number of votes on
the ticket as evidence for a desire for the feature, and hence its
usefulness. And voting on the ticket instead of here saves a lot of "me
too" noise on the mailing list.
Cheers, Chris.
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