On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:11:11AM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > > So I'm asking for a policy here that says when it is OK to resolve old > > bug without progress as WONTFIX or SUSPENDED. Start shooting. > > I think this would be a big mistake to reuse an existing state for this.
But this is pretty much what SUSPENDED means; it means that there's no intent to work on the bug in the near term. > If/when someone does start caring about that particular feature it'll be > impossible for them to distinguish between bugs that have been deliberately > closed (typically because the cure is worse than the disease), and those that > you've closed through apathy. That's an argument for not using WONTFIX. On the other hand, bugs could just be dropped to P5, and people doing queries would exclude that.
