Re: Importing from Mindview worth our time??

I am really hesitant to support just having so many bugs floating around
like this. I think that marking as RESOLVED -> WONTFIX enables devs to look
at these if they are ever inclined to do so but makes it clear to the users
that we won't be doing this (almost guaranteed). I think if we just keep
asking them to update it we give them the hope that there is a chance when
in fact there isn't, plus we add that we'll have bugs open for months
(year(s)) that won't be fixed ever and then ultimately just go to
WILLNOTFIX, when we knew that months prior to changing the status.

Joel

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:11 -0700, Joel Madero wrote:
> > I feel like we should close it as WONTFIX. Reasons:
> > 5. Not one other user has posted on the bug since its creation 5+
> > months ago
> >  request:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44606&list_id=88922
>
> There isn't anything anything IMO anything very wrong about the bug, but
> I agree that it just isn't going to happen, unless someone happens to
> really take a sudden interest in it.
>
> In fedora we close still-open bugs reported against fedora versions
> three (or so) releases earlier than the current release with a "if this
> still matters to you then test in the current version and reopen it if
> the problem persists". It's hardly an ideal solution, but it does avoid
> the accumulation of infinite amounts of bugs.
>
> Maybe this is the way to go: cull all bugs reported against versions >=
> 3 older than the current release that haven't had any activity in X
> months with a polite request to retest that its still broken if it still
> matters with a few links to commercial support if there's an itch they
> really want scratched.
>
> C.