Quoting Simon McVittie (2018-03-28 13:01:19) > On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 at 12:17:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I think "wontfix" is exactly the feature of the BTS that was > > invented to solve the problem I described. The bug is not closed > > and remains listed - so everybody is free to ignore that tag and > > close the bug. > > Is this how most people interpret wontfix? I'd usually interpreted it > as an indication of policy rather than priority: "I acknowledge that > this is a bug, but it isn't going to change, even if you provide a > patch". For instance, if there's a design flaw that people are now > relying on, such that correcting the design flaw would cause > regressions that are at least as bad as the design flaw itself, then > that's an ideal use for my interpretation of wontfix. > > In Bugzilla, WONTFIX and its cousins NOTABUG and NOTOURBUG are > resolutions, not tags (you use them by closing a bug as RESOLVED > WONTFIX instead of RESOLVED FIXED), which suggests that my > interpretation matches that of Bugzilla's designers; but perhaps the > wontfix tag in the Debian BTS was meant to mean something different? > > I would tend to use the help tag, not the wontfix tag, for bugs where > I don't intend to work on the bug myself but I'd consider applying a > patch (including porting to non-release architectures).
That sounds like a similar confusion over severity - often interpreted by bugreporters as tied to the bugreporter, where we kindly inform that it is meant to reflect the distribution as a whole: Seems the logic of Bugzilla (and Debian?) is that "wontfix is intended to be tied to the distribution as a whole, not the (current) maintainer of a package. That logic makes sense to me, but I have personally interpreted it as tied to me as maintainer. I would support simply adding a note to the documentation of our bugtracker that "wontfix" is tied to the project as a whole (which still leaves room for strongly opinionated maintainers to interpret that as "hell yeah, I hate that and I choose to speak for us all in hating that, so WONTFIX you go!" - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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