On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 17:05 +0000, Brian Wolff wrote:
Declined = WONTFIX (e.g. if some talented developer wrote a patch, and the patch was perfect, you would still -2 it because the functionality is not wanted/stupid/etc)
Invalid = not a real bug. That should include things like spam, stuff where the reporter is mistaken ( can't reproduce or if someone say reports a sharepoint bug)
I think the defining difference is its possible to write a patch for a declined bug, even though it would be rejected, where an invalid bug by definition is unfixable.
Just my 2 cents, others may have different definitions.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Bug_report_life_cycle
andre