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Re: RESOLVED states in bugzilla
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo at libero dot it>, dberlin at dberlin dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 13:42:48 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: RESOLVED states in bugzilla
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305312032390.10118-100000@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu>
On Sat, 31 May 2003, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
> These are doubtful. I haven't seen a PR where someone said "We're never
> going to fix this", but it won't hurt to have this; and WORKSFORME is not
> a very strong statement:
> Wontfix
> Worksforme
I dislike WONTFIX; I think for all the bugs closed that way, INVALID is
more appropriate (i.e., declare it to be not a GCC bug rather than to be a
GCC bug that won't be fixed). WORKSFORME is more reasonable.
> These I think are not useful:
> Remind
> Later
> If a bug is not fixed now, it should remain open, not be closed and have a
> special state. Dan, can you say who invented these states and why? I don't
Yes, we created SUSPENDED and made sure that it counts as open in default
searches for this purpose. The one bug closed as LATER should be open as
SUSPENDED instead.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk