[Zope-Coders] Re: Collector Status Meanings

[Tres Seaver]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
>> From the practical point of view I don't like the fact that some issues 
> 
> were changed from wontfix to pending
> just because the issue may be right and because some volunteer should 
> fix an issue some time in the future.
> When I mark something as wontfix then I will not come across this issue 
> over and over again in the future
> while walking through the collector searching for issues to be fixed. 
> You start to re-read the same issues
> over and over again although you might have thought the issue in the 
> past and maybe added some comments
> on the issue. I would like to have *something* to distinguish between 
> real pending (new) issues and issues that
> are unlikely to be fixed (just because there is some code that anyone 
> won't touch).  Maybe we need a new state 
> you_are_right_but_we_will_not_fix_this_except_you_fix_it_yourself.

That is effectively the meaning of "deferred".  "Wontfix" means (to me, 
anyway) that the requested change, while addressing a legitimate 
problem, would cause more damage than good.  "Deferred" means that 
somebody looked at it, didn't reject it as invalid, didn't judge that it 
was a "wontfix" issue, but that nobody was available to work on it.

I undid a couple of Friday's "wontfix" changes on this basis (one I 
rejected, beacuse it was really a Python issue;  the other I left 
pending, with a patch).

Tres.
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