Re: new tag for `status' field in bug database

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Werner LEMBERG escreveu:
>>> I suggest to add a new value `postponed' to the `status' field in
>>> the bug database.  For example, bug #14 deserves this tag IMHO.
>> I'm not sure this is necessary.  In some ways, any bug that's more
>> than two weeks old is "postponed".
> 
> I don't think so.  Other bug databases like bugzilla have a similar
> field.  It's a difference between a bug which is not handled, a bug
> which has been partially fixed, and a really fixed bug.
> 
>> Besides, isn't the "priority" field supposed to be used for this?
> 
> I say no.
> 
>> `Low' means that it might not be fixed before the next (major)
>> release, `high' meaning that it should be fixed before the next
>> release?
> 
> Again, I don't think so.  Why not tell exactly whether a bug can be
> fixed right now or must be postponed for various reasons?

hmm, 
agree here. There's a difference between "can't fix don't have time" and 
"can't fix requires rearchitecting".


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