On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:29 -0700, Ryan Lane wrote:
> The really difficult thing here is that every time a bad idea
> is WONTFIX'd it makes a community member feel that they are being
> ignored. Do it too many times and you have a lot of community members
> that feel this way.
My naïve hope is that you can make people feel slightly better by
elaborating on decisions (which might take a minute of the developers'
or triagers' time though), even on a rather generic level.
As an example, when I close "exotic" enhancement requests as WONTFIX in
projects I'm active in, I try to add a comment in the style of
"Thanks for sharing your idea. Unfortunately there are currently
no plans to provide this in the native application, as your idea
likely would only be useful to a smaller amount of users.
However it could become an extension which could be provided by
third party developers, but not by the core developers
themselves. Hence closing as WONTFIX for the native
application."
My two cents,
andre
--
Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster & GNOME Bugsquad)
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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