On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:56:53 -0800, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 November 2011 19:43, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
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.
The reason WONTFIX, FIXED and WORKSFORME don't make sense is because that isn't a bug, it's an enhancement request. Perhaps the solution is to not include enhancements in the list of bugs by default. It's natural that enhancement requests will sometimes sit around for ages before they get implemented, that doesn't mean we should mark them as resolved when they aren't.
No. We have plenty of enhancement requests that don't fit into WONTFIX, FIXED, WORKSFORME, or LATER. And we don't want to make those disappear, those are valid bugs to keep open.
The reason why WONTFIX, FIXED, and WORKSFORME doesn't fit that bug is because it's dependent on external systems implementing functionality in order for us to be able to implement the feature. Hence, LATER when they are implemented.