Hello. I propose to use (UNDER)DISCUSSION. As Deryck pointed out on IRC, it implies that the bug isn't actually closed. That's true, but however I think that it's more intuitive for everyone. Also, if community members are discussing on a bug, that bug can't be considered fully closed because it may be reconsidered in the future.
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 09:13 -0500, Deryck Hodge wrote: > Hi, all. > > The question I'm interested in getting help with here will make more > sense if you look at the LEP first: > > https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/CloseBugsLeaveDiscussionsOpen > > In short, we want to be able to close bugs in a way that will be > friendlier and leave discussions open. We're considering doing this > by adding a new status. This status would work like the closed bug > statuses we have now, WONTFIX and INVALID. It would, however, be > named differently to communicate that discussion is free to continue. > We have debated a few terms and tentatively settled on OPINION. This > is not a perfect term, but it's hard to come up with something better. > I'm wondering if any of the excellent minds here can think of a > better term. Please see all the previously considered terms on the > LEP before proposing something new. > > I know this question could be open to a lot of debate, but please keep > in mind I'm only asking for help with the naming of this status. > Mark, Jono L, and I have already discussed off list the idea that more > statuses are bad, alternate solutions that don't require a new status, > and more. Every solution is imperfect for this. We're interested in > trying this as an experiment, and if it's done right, it would solve a > particular problem prevalent in some of the communities using > Launchpad bugs -- namely that people won't allow a bug to be closed > because they want to continue discussing the issues around the bug. > We'll be keeping metrics on this as its added, and if it proves to not > make any difference, we'll back out the status and change bugs using > OPINION (or whatever it ends up being called) to WONTFIX. If you want > to discuss the issues around the proposal more generally, please ping > me or Jono L. offlist, or start a new thread on the mailing list. > > So.... any ideas for a better term for this potential new status OPINION? :-) > > Cheers, > deryck > >
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