[Numpy-discussion] Ticket closing policy

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:22 AM, David <david at 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