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

[Ken Manheimer]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Ken Manheimer wrote:

> > > 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.
> > 
> > They can stay in the pending state then, plenty of issues stay in the 
> > pending state for years, so I see no difference between your use of 
> > deferred and the current use of pending...
> 
> I think if people understood the difference better (thank you for this 
> effort to make that happen!) it would work better.

In particular, i think it's better for things to languish in "deferred" 
than in "pending".  I think it is useful in some cases, and do not think 
an artificial 1-month deadline is useful in many cases.

Ken