On 01/27/2015 03:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: >> What is the procedure for closing an ENHANCEMENT issue when the >> enhancement is not recommended? >> > > IMHO, the set of all open ENHANCEMENT issues comprise a "wish list" > which volunteer developers are welcome to dip into if they want. We > will always have more such enhancement requests than we can address. > This is true of every project. Only a dead project has no more ideas > for enhancement, > > But if an idea is objectively bad then we should probably close it. > For example, if it would break a standard, break another feature, > perhaps if it is redundant, etc. I recall reading about a survey > Microsoft did of Office 2003 users, asking them what features they > wanted added to Office. When the survey results were tallied they > found that many of the feature requests were already in the product, > but hard to find. > > Does this make sense?
yes...we have few ACCEPTED ENHANCEMENTS, and I doubt many of the others were formally discussed. But, of course, if a developer took one on, we can always review patches and discuss at that point. Just because no one has implemented a feature > yet does not mean the idea is a bad one. Right. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > >> See issue 125954 as an example -- >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125954 >> >> So far I have found 6919 issues for ENHANCEMENTS regardless of status. >> None of them are RESOLVED, so my assumption is that a negative >> recommendation doesn't get any special status handling. >> >> Should we make an attempt to go through the old ENHANCEMENT/FEATURE >> issues and see if we can "finalize" the ones that have been turned down >> by some means -- RESOLVED/NOT AN ISSUE -- or ?? >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "An old horse for a long, hard road, >> a young pony for a quick ride." >> -- Texas Bix Bender >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "An old horse for a long, hard road, a young pony for a quick ride." -- Texas Bix Bender --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
