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@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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-t... ) +1 D
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Quim Gil quimgil@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:
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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