On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Gabriele Svelto <gsve...@mozilla.com> wrote: > What's the general feeling about this? The relevant MDN page [2] mentions > that WONTFIX should only be used by module owners and peers so that also > makes me wary of using it even though in some cases I'm pretty sure a bug > won't ever be fixed. The typical case being bugs affecting dead/unsupported > platforms.
I think it's OK to resolve bugs that really, really are about dead platforms (Windows older than XP, Mac OS Classic) and really don't apply to any currently-supported platform. If you are shy to use WONTFIX, you could use WORKSFORME in the sense that the problem has gone away with the dead platform. However, we should be careful not to close bugs that are still current just because the reports are old. Doing so is quite offensive and frustrating to people who report bugs--more offensive and frustrating than just not fixing stuff. (I pretty much stopped reporting Ubuntu bugs when I learned that they encourage people to close old bugs so that the burden is on the reporter to reopen and say that the bug still applies instead of the burden of being on the person closing the bugs to verify that the bugs no longer apply.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
