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:
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