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[Luke Schierer]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:49:22PM -0400, Zachary West wrote:
> On 9/15/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
> >
> > While I agree that we should not close otherwise valid defects, I think
> > we *should* close enhancement requests that non of us want to put on a
> > personal todo list.  Having it open creates the false impression that we
> > are still considering writing it, versus wanting to see a patch before
> > we will consider it.  Plus having it open generates more tickets, and
> > thus makes it harder for a user to avoid submitting a duplicate.
> 
> 
> The way we (in the Adium project) have been handling "well, it's nice and
> all, but there's no way we want to do it at the moment.." is to throw them
> in a "Good idea for 'later'" milestone. It is a good place for new people
> (in terms of patch writers) to check out possibly easy enhancements, as well
> as a way to take non-milestoned tickets out of the ambiguous pool. In
> general, it's a pretty good place for tickets to go to die.
> 
> It also helps to create (and we've been pretty bad about watching these) a
> "Needs dev review" and "Needs feedback from users". Being able to throw
> "pending" (which will auto-close after 1 week with no response) helps to
> filter out a lot of the tickets people aimlessly file.
> 
> Zac West

I liked this idea (having a milestone for things that people should
submit patches if they want to see it happen).  I have now implemented
it.  Thanks!

luke