On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:10:21 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
It actually sounds to me as if you are in favor of the idea conceptually, but the specifics of the name are open. The idea being that we want to identify bugs that are possibly no longer relevant in current releases.
Would that be a fair statement?
I'm not entirely convinced INVALID isn't adequate for purging bugs against unsupported releases.
Right, but putting the specific word aside, the idea is what I'm aiming at getting some consensus around. That there should be some way of identifying that a bug is not relevant any more because it's either been addressed or the system has changed as to make it not necessary to address. We can quibble over words all day and not get anywhere. So the concept is the important thing to get some consensus around.
Were I convinced, I don't believe OBSOLETE would be the best choice of addition. Mozilla's installation went many years before it was found appropriate to add EXPIRED and INCOMPLETE. Maybe that it eventually did should have convinced me.
Again, let's not focus so much on the word (that'll slow down momentum and we can debate the word once we've decided we're going down a productive and useful path). :)
I'm bothered more by SUSE having been disgorged from Novell that it doesn't have a separate bug tracker to keep SLEx & openSUSE users from more easily getting overwhelmed trying to use it. cf. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753203
That's really a separate issue and a much larger one to tackle. While it might be necessary/desirable to look at splitting the SUSE BU's bugs off from the others in the Novell bugzilla, if we start redesigning the entire system we'll end up not making any progress. I think we do have some more immediate and pressing issues to work out before we take on something as major as splitting the SUSE/openSUSE bugs out of the bug tracker they're currently in. We need to maintain focus on not letting the scope get out of control (scope creep will keep us from doing anything and nothing will change). Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org