that sounds like something that should be cleaned up a la CLOSED/RESOLVED reminds me of stackoverflow's recent close changes
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/06/the-war-of-the-closes/?cb=1 jesse -- jesse mcconnell [email protected] On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Igor Fedorenko <[email protected]>wrote: > Just to clarify on terminology I used/implied. WONTFIX is a real > problem which won't be fixed for lack of interest and/or resources. > INVALID when the system works as designed. > > -- > Regards, > Igor > > > > On 2013-07-13 12:57 AM, Ed Merks wrote: > >> Igor, >> >> I think it's even stronger than that. In the end, WONTFIX shouldn't >> mean "I don't have time or I don't feel like it" but rather "it's >> working as designed and changing it isn't what I believe is >> appropriate". As such, even if someone provided a "fix," that's not >> what's desired. Committers have the right and in fact an obligation to >> maintain design integrity; sometimes that annoys people. In any case, >> we're not obligated to spend every waking moment of every day to fix >> every reported problem, though it sometimes feels that way.... >> >> Regards, >> Ed >> >> >> On 12/07/2013 7:26 PM, Igor Fedorenko wrote: >> >>> How is this going to help? In most/all cases bugs are not fixed because >>> nobody comes forward with quality fixes. Weather somebody says "it needs >>> to be fixed" does not matter unless his/her words are backed up by the >>> code. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Igor >>> >>> On 2013-07-12 11:50 PM, Ed Willink wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Get a committer from a related but independent project to review the >>>> Bugzilla discussion to form a less prejudiced on view on whether the >>>> WONTFIX is justified. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Ed Willink >>>> >>>> On 12/07/2013 17:25, Doug Schaefer wrote: >>>> >>>>> It is. And I'm sure there are hate sites for every tool people use. >>>>> Eclipse isn't unique that way. >>>>> >>>>> My point is that user experience is so important to our success, we >>>>> need to be sensitive to the issues our users are facing. There are a >>>>> lot of such issues marked WONTFIX, and CDT is as guilty of that as >>>>> anyone. I'm just wondering how we fix it. >>>>> >>>>> Doug. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> cross-project-issues-dev mailing list >>>> cross-project-issues-dev@**eclipse.org<[email protected]> >>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/cross-**project-issues-dev<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev> >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> cross-project-issues-dev mailing list >>> cross-project-issues-dev@**eclipse.org<[email protected]> >>> https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/cross-**project-issues-dev<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev> >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> cross-project-issues-dev mailing list >> cross-project-issues-dev@**eclipse.org<[email protected]> >> https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/cross-**project-issues-dev<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > cross-project-issues-dev mailing list > cross-project-issues-dev@**eclipse.org<[email protected]> > https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/cross-**project-issues-dev<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev> >
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