Looks nice. What I meant was: what do I have to change to make it work.

Thanks  ../Dave

On 28 June 2018 at 18:33, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:

> On Jun 28, 2018, at 6:15 AM, David Mason <dma...@ryerson.ca> wrote:
> >
> > where did you make these changes?
>
> It’s most readily seen in this repository:
>
>     https://tangentsoft.com/pidp8i
>
> In addition to the reporting changes I previously described, there are
> others, mainly in Admin > Tickets > Common.  For instance, my
> resolution_choices list includes the nonstandard “Implemented” choice,
> which I use instead of “Fixed” when I finish implementing a feature request
> ticket.
>
> Further thoughts on this topic:
>
> Features do sometimes jump multiple levels.  For instance, an idea that
> was once just a good idea — “Medium” in my system — may eventually be
> deemed essential and thus jump straight to Immediate priority.
>
> Features sometimes also fall multiple levels.  A person filing a feature
> request might have what he thinks is a really hot idea (“High”) but when we
> later go through the release planning exercise, management may think it’s a
> bad idea for some reason, so it drops to Low rather than being deleted.  We
> may add a comment on reprioritizing at this point to record who spiked the
> idea, so we know who has to be convinced if the idea comes back up again.
>
> The High priority pool rarely drains, even immediately after planning the
> next release.  We have more great ideas than time to implement them.  We
> just hope to get to those ideas before the world changes enough that the
> feature ideas become worthless, in which case we need more developers:
> we’ve left fruit on the tree.
>
> The Medium pool never drains until the project planners run out of good
> ideas, at which point it’s time to mothball the project.
>
> If the Low pool ever drains, it probably means you’re not capturing enough
> of the organization’s knowledge in Fossil.  After enough member turnover,
> the organization will forget things it should remember.
>
> “Low” may be an idea graveyard in a private repository, but in a public
> repo, it is where features that the core developers are unlikely to get to
> land.  This pool is a good place to point outside contributors, since
> they’re ideas worth keeping but they’re unlikely to conflict with a core
> developer’s plans.  That’s not an exclusive characterization: Medium will
> have more such ideas, just with a higher risk that some core developer has
> his eye on it and has plans to get to it someday.
>
> Fossil’s ticketing system is really quite flexible.  There’s a good chance
> you don’t have to accept things you don’t like about it: the fix might be
> easily accomplished.
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