[Zope-Coders] Collector Status Meanings

[Chris Withers]

(damn, Andreas is on holiday so we'll have to wait an age for the reply...)

Andreas Jung wrote:
> From the practical point of view I don't like the fact that some issues
> were changed from wontfix to pending

Was that me? I wasn't aware of doing that...

> just because the issue may be right and because some volunteer should 
> fix an issue some time in the future.

Wel, if it's a BUG, then I think Pending is right. If it's a feature 
request, then yeah, Wontfix it an someone can have a play if they get 
bored...

> 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.

Hmmm, this is Wontfix for me, why is it not?

cheers,

Chris

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