I agree, currently the LATER acts as a blackhole and there is no structured process to re-evaluate these kind of bugs.
I have done a lot of reading of these bugs and many were filed 3 to 5 years ago, I think it's better to say WONTFIX then to suggest that this is something that is going to be fixed. It is about expectation management :)
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nlwrote:
On 29 November 2011 19:45, Diederik van Liere dvanliere@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I would interpret 'LATER' as 'this bug should be re-evaluated after a certain period of time'.
Following this train of thought, a LATER bug should have a re-evaluation date planned, after which it is changed back to NEW. This probably is not possible, but I think it makes sense to change LATER bugs to NEW after, say, a year or so.
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