On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Chris Withers wrote:
Apologies for the cross-posting, but I think this is relevent to all these lists.
I think this is a valuable discussion. I don't think cross-posted discussions work, though, so i'm replying in the various groups (except zope-collector-monitor, which is only meant for collector-originating submissions) with a followup to zope-coders.
I've summarised the meaning of the various collector states here:
http://dev.zope.org/CVS/CollectorStatuses
Please let me know if you disagre with any of that, although I'm pretty sure they're right and will argue with anyone who thinks otherwise ;-)
My intent for the states is different from what you suggested, in some cases significantly. It may be that the practice is more like you describe and makes more sense, i dunno, but here's what i intended: Pending: Issues that have not yet been settled or assigned to some supporter, and warrant attention. Your description, "issues that haven't been considered", assumes that issues are always assigned or settled when they are examined, while i think some issues can remain in the pending state awaiting resource availability. Accepted: Issues that some supporter(s) has responsibility for resolving it, and it is not yet resolved. Your description says that some supporter has assessed the issue as warranting repair, and later says that the the issue has an assigned supporter. I think it's a lot clearer to directly say that an accepted issue has a supporter responsible for resolving it. Rejected: Issues that are settled as being somehow invalid or outside the scope of the system the collector serves. Resolved: Issues that are settled as having been solved. Deferred: Issues that are not assigned or settled but warrant revisiting at some later occasion. This enables, for instance, putting an issue aside until more information is collected. Wontfix: Issues that are settled as ones that won't be fixed. These issues are within the scope of the collector, but would require more effort than they're worth. (Sustained lack of a champion who will take responsibility for solving the issue is one sign of that.)