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There is an important difference between WONTFIX and LATER.
WONTFIX is something rejected because it's a bad idea, etc...
LATER is something rejected because there are technical reasons we can't
do it any time soon now. But in the future after some major even it's
possible that we can finally fix it.
The key point being that we don't ditch it because we won't fix it, but
rather because we can't yet.
And that is very important.
If something is RESOLVED LATER. Then periodically and after major things
happen we can look back through RESOLVED LATER and finally pick out old
bugs we can fix. Something beautiful since these can be major improvements
to MediaWiki.
But if we instead resolve things we might be able to fix in the future as
WONTFIX and dilute them right along side bugs that should NEVER be
implemented... then we can no longer look back and find old bugs we can
finally fix.
If you want to get rid of RESOLVED LATER. You should first compile a full
history of bugs and make a list of all bugs that were once marked RESOLVED
LATER and then were given a new resolution.
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:25:12 -0800, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:
I was a bit of a lazy child, specially when it came to clean up my room
or do my homework. I tried to convince my mom and teachers about the
paradigm of RESOLVED LATER, but they never bought it. At the end I had
to clean up my room and do my homework.
Even as a child I suspected that they were actually right. If something
has been postponed for later it can't be called "resolved". Now it's me
who hears from time to time excuses from my kids that sound more or less
like RESOLVED LATER. "Yeah, sure", I tell them, pointing to the source
of pending work. :)
And now to the topic:
What about removing the LATER resolution from our Bugzilla? It feels
like sweeping reports under the carpet. If a team is convinced that
something won't be addressed any time soon then they can WONTFIX. If
anybody feels differently then they can take the report back and fix it.
Before we could simply reopen the 311 reports filed under RESOLVED LATER:
http://bit.ly/YxW60z
Huggle 1
MediaWiki 74
MediaWiki extensions 104
Monuments database 1
mwEmbed 3
Parsoid 1
Tools 2
WikiLoves Monuments Mobile 4
Wikimedia 114
Wikimedia Labs 1
Wikimedia Mobile 3
Wikipedia App 3
Total 311
Looking at the total amount of open bugs, the impact is not that big.
The house will be as tidy/untidy as before, but at least things wll be
clearer now.
What do you think?
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Quim
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