On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:45:23 -0800, Diederik van Liere dvanliere@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_id...
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:
- WONTFIX, which I guess is the majority of these bugs
- WORKSFORME, I am sure some things have been fixed
- NEW, it is a real bug / feature request.
So why not do a mass change from LATER to NEW, and give them a fresh pair of eyes? and remove the LATER option from Bugzilla.
Best,
Diederik
This -> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18082 Is not really WONTFIX, nor FIXED, nor WORKSFORME... and do you really want it marked as an open bug when it won't be implemented at all for ages until browsers actually have feature support that would make it possible to implement?
Sounds like a bad way to make our list of open bugs grow in a needless way and cloud up real bug reports we can and want to fix, with bug reports that won't be fixable for quite awhile due to external sources.