[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-Coders] Collector Status Meanings

[Chris McDonough]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:11, Chris Withers wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
> > 
> > What I think Chris wants to do is to have a state that means "pending
> > rejection".  He has defined "deferred" to mean this.  I would prefer an
> > explicit "pending rejection" state, FWIW.
> 
> *shrugs*
> 
> It's easier to re-use a useless state than add a new one.

I don't think deferred is useless.  I used deferred to mean "stuff that
isn't so important that it needs to be fixed now, but stuff that should
be fixed nonetheless".  IOW, deferred to me means it's been looked at,
it's been determined to be a real problem, but it's just not possible to
fix given resource constraints.  "Wontfix" doesn't mean this to me;
instead it means it just won't get fixed ever.

I don't think it's important to move all issues from pending/deferred to
a "terminal" state like "wontfix"/"rejected"/"resolved".  It's ok to
leave some issues pending long-term, and this is what "deferred" is
for.  If that's a "dumping ground", I think it's ok.

- C


> 
> We have wontfix for what people used to genuinely use deferred for.
> 
> The others were just using it as a dumping ground :-(
> 
> Chris