Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:11:11AM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > So I'm asking for a policy here that says when it is OK to resolve old
> > bug without progress as WONTFIX or SUSPENDED. Start shooting.
> 
> I think this would be a big mistake to reuse an existing state for this.

But this is pretty much what SUSPENDED means; it means that there's no
intent to work on the bug in the near term.

> If/when someone does start caring about that particular feature it'll be 
> impossible for them to distinguish between bugs that have been deliberately 
> closed (typically because the cure is worse than the disease), and those that 
> you've closed through apathy.

That's an argument for not using WONTFIX.

On the other hand, bugs could just be dropped to P5, and people doing
queries would exclude that.