RESOLVED states in bugzilla

[Gareth McCaughan]

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:

WORKSFORME has a meaning that seems to me strong enough to be
useful. (And not equivalent to INVALID as someone else suggested.)
It means:

    At least one of us has looked at this; none of us
    has been able to reproduce the buggy behaviour.
    If we could, we'd agree that it's a bug.

Whereas INVALID means:

    The behaviour you report is not a bug.

I think that's a useful distinction. For instance: suppose
a new bug report, just like the already resolved one, comes in.
For an INVALID bug you just file it as a duplicate and forget
about it. For a WORKSFORME bug you should consider seriously
that maybe it's more reproducible than you thought.

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