[Wikitech-l] About RESOLVED LATER

[Quim Gil]

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:

http://bit.ly/YxW60z

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