On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 04:05:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2026-01-13 20:18:57 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 01:30:46PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar via Mutt-dev > > wrote: > > > > As long as these issues are clearly labeled as 'feature request', once > > > > some devs are running out of work, they can search closed issues for > > > > unresolved FRs. > > > > > > IMO and IME, closed means resolved. > > > > Sure, but "resolved" does not necessarily imply "implemented." > > Bugzilla, for example, and actually every bug management system I've > > worked with, had statuses like "INVALID" or "WONTFIX" and rightly so. > > Actually these are not statuses, but resolution types:
Ugh. Yes, pedantically speaking using Bugzilla's own terminology, sure. But actually, generically speaking, the resolution type is just part of the overal status of the ticket, in the English sense of the word, i.e. the common noun "status," not Bugzilla's proper noun "Status." Since I explicitly mentioned other bug management systems, my comments should not have been interpreted to refer specifically to Bugzilla's terminology. Sigh. > In short, the meaning of "resolved", "closed" and so on really > depends on the bug tracker (not just the software like Bugzilla, but > particular instances). Yes; or said another way, it's dependent on how the maintainers want to use them. They're the folks saddled with the actual work, so they generally can, generally should, and generally do, decide how the bug tracker workflow works. Not to say the community shouldn't have input, but the tool should work primarily for those who are the primary users of it, i.e. the maintainers. For the sake of pedantry, by "maintainers" I mean, "those who predominantly shoulder the burden of triaging, debugging, fixing, and updating issues in the bug tracker, and releasing new versions with those fixes" (distinct from those who only occasionally or never do those things, who, myself certainly included, would be more accurately described as "contributors"). -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
