On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/11/2012 10:32 AM, Andre Klapper wrote: >> So in case there is a culture in Wikimedia Bugzilla to not use WONTFIX >> too often, it could be interesting to discuss its use and the reasons. > > Before I left WMF, I had come to use the lowest priority to indicate > what you're using WONTFIX for. > > I did this because using lowest priority instead of WONTFIX properly > communicated the amount of attention the issue is going to get from > developers and the WMF. It says "Sure, this is a problem, but we aren't > going to spend any time on it. If you can find a way to fix this, we > might use it." > > The last bit -- "we might use it" -- is what WONTFIX explicitly denies. > I felt that WONTFIX should be used for things that the developers > clearly thought were bad ideas -- "Support Facebook logins and 'Like > this page' in MediaWiki core" would be an example of that. > > Of course, this is just how i came to use it. You may decide that this > isn't the way you want to do things. >
I agree with this usage of WONTFIX. WONTFIX (to me) means we won't fix something ever--not "we'll fix it, just no commitments on when." -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
