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 gone on around it, and maybe even has a (currently outdated) patch of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
>> 

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