Personally, I like having a "Postponed"/"Later" resolution at least
available.
WONTFIX = We acknowledge this is a valid bug, but are choosing not to fix
it due to time and resources necessary to fix it. We will not be
revisiting this bug unless it is re-raised by others.
LATER = We acknowledge this is a valid bug, and we agree that it should be
fixed, but don't have time right now. We will be voluntarily revisiting
this soon.
While we could arguably just dump both situations into WONTFIX, I think
that would muddy the triage process pretty heavily, making it more
difficult to track bugs we intend to revisit.
That said, it IS easy for LATER to become a procrastination paradise, where
it gets resolved and then never thought of again. Would it be worthwhile
to set up an automated notice when a LATER bug ages past a certain date
(say, a month without being touched), instead of axing the resolution?
Thanks,
Nabil
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Diederik van Liere
<dvanliere(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Hi,
I made the exact same argument a while back (Dropping the LATER resolution
in Bugzilla
http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Dropping-the-LATER-resolution-in-Bugzilla-…
)
+1
D
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Quim Gil <quimgil(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was a bit of a lazy child, specially when it
came to clean up my room
or
do my homework. I tried to convince my mom and
teachers about the
paradigm
of RESOLVED LATER, but they never bought it. At
the end I had to clean up
my room and do my homework.
Even as a child I suspected that they were actually right. If something
has been postponed for later it can't be called "resolved". Now it's me
who
hears from time to time excuses from my kids that
sound more or less like
RESOLVED LATER. "Yeah, sure", I tell them, pointing to the source of
pending work. :)
And now to the topic:
What about removing the LATER resolution from our Bugzilla? It feels like
sweeping reports under the carpet. If a team is convinced that something
won't be addressed any time soon then they can WONTFIX. If anybody feels
differently then they can take the report back and fix it.
Before we could simply reopen the 311 reports filed under RESOLVED LATER:
http://bit.ly/YxW60z
Huggle 1
MediaWiki 74
MediaWiki extensions 104
Monuments database 1
mwEmbed 3
Parsoid 1
Tools 2
WikiLoves Monuments Mobile 4
Wikimedia 114
Wikimedia Labs 1
Wikimedia Mobile 3
Wikipedia App 3
Total 311
Looking at the total amount of open bugs, the impact is not that big. The
house will be as tidy/untidy as before, but at least things wll be
clearer
now.
What do you think?
--
Quim
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