If you suspect that a bug has been fixed or is now invalid, then ask
that question in the bug.
But I agree that "later" really ought not to be a resolution (because
really a bug marked LATER has not been resolved), but rather a status or
prioritization. When I do searches across all the open bugs, I do not
habitually say "and also ones that are Resolved but only if they've been
marked Resolved--Later". And probably most people are making the same
omission.
Mark H., what do you think? Also, is there a way to make Bugzilla's
default search include resolved bugs with the Later resolution?
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
On 11/29/2011 02:02 PM, Diederik van Liere wrote:
But then the bug should be NEW, nobody is checking for
a bug that is marked
LATER. I mentioned WORKSFORME because i suspect that some of the LATER bugs
have been resolved by now.
Diederik
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Diederik van Liere <dvanliere(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Currently, we have a 'LATER' resolution in Bugzilla, it contains 339 bug
>> reports over all the products, see:
>>
>>
>
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&list_i…
>>
>> The question is, when is LATER? Technically, these bugs are not open and
> so
>> nobody will ever see them again and that's how they will be forgotten.
>>
>> To me, it seems that bugs that are labeled LATER should either be
> labeled:
>> 1) WONTFIX, which I guess is the majority of these bugs
>> 2) WORKSFORME, I am sure some things have been fixed
>> 3) NEW, it is a real bug / feature request.
>>
>
> LATER means we can't or won't do it (right now) but that is
> likely to change in the future. WONTFIX implies "no and this
> is not likely to change"
>
> WORKSFORME is unrelated.
>
> -Chad
>
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