On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 21:22:45 -0700, Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> wrote:
On Apr 18, 2014, at 19:59 , R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> wrote:
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For the other deletions, I think think it should be obvious that we only need one resolution that says "maybe someday this will get reopened", rather than three of them.
Presumably you mean collapsing "later" and "remind" into "postpone". Fine with me.
That seems to leave "out of date" unaccounted for. If we're in a
Yes, you are right, I forgot that one. I suppose that one should be kept, although I suspect it gets used only infrequently.
collapsing mood, I guess that could be covered by "fixed". Further down the minimalist route, perhaps "works for me" could be collapsed into "not a bug" as well. That distinction seems hazy enough to make it difficult to apply the two consistently.
I'd be fine with eliminating "works for me" in favor of "not a bug". Especially since "works for me" is really ambiguous when faced with possible cross-platform issues.
While part of me likes the idea of having more fine-grained statuses as we do today, in practice it is difficult to make use of them so I'm OK with consolidation.
As far as I can see the current use case for resolution is to inform viewers of the bug, and most importantly the original reporter, what the "disposition" of the bug was. For that purpose "works for me" and "not a bug" are essentially equivalent.
BTW, what about the fields for existing (open and closed) issues? Would they get mapped to the new values?
They will continue to show the resolution they were closed with. We *could* go back and change the resolution of closed issues, but unless we are using resolution in a way that such a cleanup would actually benefit, I don't think it is worth spending time on. --David PS: Thanks for updating the devguide, but the way, I'd forgotten about that.