On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:22 AM, David <david@silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
Hi Mark, hi all,
I noticed you did a lot of cleaning in the bug trackers, thank you for helping there, this is sorely needed.
However, I noticed quite a few tickets were closed as wontfix even though they are valid.
I checked all the wontfix tickets and reopened two, but I agreed with the others. Never closing tickets if they are valid (even though it's clear they will not be resolved anymore) is not a useful policy either IMHO. For example, the bug report of a build issue of numpy 1.0.1 on IRIX could still be valid, but no more info or help on this ticket for 3 years. So close as wontfix. If a new IRIX user comes along and this is still an issue, it can be reopened or a new ticket can be opened. Cheers, Ralf
I understand the concern of getting many languishing tickets, but one should not close valid tickets either. Also, in my experience, issues specific to win32 should not be closed because they work on Linux - I remember the fastputmask issue was still there not so long ago (but could not understand what was going on, unfortunately).
cheers,
David