Yeah, there isn’t always a good resolution. Leaving an issue Unresolved and closing it is a 3rd option. I’d advocate that for issues that are really old and require further information which nobody has provided.
The CCIT filter makes me want to hide in a cave, or just smash my fax machine :) -- John On 28 Feb 2014, at 12:18, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, it's tricky. I've not always been certain about choosing the correct > one. > > Luckily, I'm mostly done. I wanted to find some sort of pattern in the "cold > cases", and also get rid of a few. > What I found is: > - many people complained about fonts > - many people with crappy PDFs > - several issues with the ccitt filter. This is really suspicious. > > Tilman > > Am 28.02.2014 20:45, schrieb John Hewson: >> Hi All >> >> I’ve been re-closing some issues resolved as Invalid which are legitimate >> issues that >> are either out of date or things which we are not wanting to fix in PDFBox. >> I’ve changed >> the resolution to Won’t Fix, because it may well be the case that these are >> valid issues, >> but we’ve decided not to fix them. The Invalid label should be for issues >> which are >> entirely bogus, such as “PDFBox cannot extract text from PDF in which text >> is embedded >> as an image”. If an issue is labelled as Invalid then there should never be >> a possibility >> that it is re-opened, because it was never a legitimate problem. >> >> Happy JIRA-ing. >> >> -- John >> >> >
