Three of my nine bug reports have now been incorrectly closed as INVALID. I'm not precious about resolution status, as long as problems are reported and then resolved but this seems to have got out of hand. Just in case anyone is using the statuses in any sort of reports it would be useful if we were all provided some guidance in the use of the correct resolution reasons! The Bugmaster (do we have one for MeeGo?) might also like to occasionally review some of the RESOLVED bugs to make sure their status is correct and fix ones which are not (with a comment, so that both submitter and developer understand what status should have been used and why).
Bug 2705 is the most ridiculous -- it was closed as INVALID because the fix was already in git but will not be available until the 1.1 release! It should have been closed as FIXED. Bug 3058 should have been closed as WONTFIX. Bug 446 should not have been closed at all until the documentation in the Wiki had been updated, then it should have been closed as FIXED (in the end, I fixed the documentation myself after the developer closed the bug as invalid). Either don't use statuses at all or use them correctly. If we need more statuses, then add them. The INVALID status should be reserved for bugs which are incorrectly formatted, spam, insufficient information, etc. It is not reasonable to use it for genuine and meaningful bug reports even if you disagree that they are a bug (that is what WONTFIX is for). It is even less correct to use it for bugs you have actually fixed!! Graham _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
