On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 23:30, Samuel Verschelde <sto...@laposte.net> wrote: > CLOSED replaces RESOLVED, because I think it's nicer for the bug reporter if > we "close" bugs rather than consider them "resolved" when the reason for > closing is WONT-FIX, DUPLICATE, OLD, etc., statuses that obviously don't match > the meaning of "RESOLVED".
RESOLVED does match. Beware, this is a known "false friend" in English/French (although it is used in a equivalent meaning as in "Je suis résolu à" or "J'ai pris la ferme résolution de"). To resolve is to decide firmly, not to solve (well, as well, but in a later meaning). If the RESOLVED status in Bugzilla had been understood as "SOLVED", then RESOLVED - FIXED would be a pleonasm. Romain