My first thought was what's the difference between open/unversioned, but then I think it does require an explicit move which means we've indicated we've looked at it. I do think this is a nice middle ground.
On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote: > I am really voting for a backlog target. most probably i won't > implement pca idea by end of december but it doesn't mean i am not > committed to see it thru. There probably will be some progress there > if only in form of working notes and some math and discussions. I need > this stuff to be peer reviewed. Why not have a 'backlog' target and > let it live there? > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>> > - Anything that isn't fixed by December is WontFix and we release 0.6. >>>> >>>> I realize it's drastic, but it's a coherent position. >>> >>> Not at all drastic and perfectly sane. >> >> >> So regarding JIRA management. I see that Benson and Sean come from >> a viewpoint that long-lived open JIRA tickets are a bad sign, while people >> like Grant, myself, and to some degree Ted, are used to seeing open tickets >> in an unresolved state that are used as placeholders which tell the outside >> observer what has been suggested in the past and what discussions have >> gone on around it, and maybe even has a (currently outdated) patch of >> a proposed solution. >> >> I'm really of the mind that WontFix is meant for "this idea does not fit at >> all / >> won't work / and we never intend to do this". Good ideas which we don't >> have the bandwidth for are instead unversioned and left open. I think >> WontFix on an "old ticket" sends a message to the person who opened it >> that we're not interested in their contribution, or if it's a bugfix, that >> we're >> arrogant and don't think they are correct in stating it's an important bug. >> >> I'd much rather we find an acceptable unresolved state than always push >> for "0 open JIRA tickets". The Hadoop community also has very long lived >> open tickets with slow progress, it's not just Lucene. I think this is >> healthy >> and a nice way to keep track of what people have thought about in the past. >> >> -jake >> -------------------------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com
