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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [Bug 84101] In the KCM,
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-11-20 18:19:36
Message-ID: 200811201819.36376.cannewilson () googlemail ! com
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On Thursday 20 November 2008 17:57:24 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> one thing I discussed with Matt prior to him closing these aRts bugs is to
> ensure that they are closed with a dinstinct resolution status so we can
> easilly retrieve the reports closed as such. so that if by some stroke of
> chance someone appears who wants to work on aRts in a meaningful way, we
> can easily reinstate all the bugs that were closed en masse due to aRts
> being shelved.
>
> > Leaving such bugs there and also open if they are still valid doesn't
> > harm and could eventully help.
>
> it does harm in the sense that we end up with a bugzilla that has an ever
> increasing number of bugs even though we've moved on (so it no longer
> reflects our actual progress, which in turn makes measuring harder and also
> affects morale). those increasing number of irrelevant reports (in terms of
> development, not user interest!) also means that when i do a search for
> open bugs with certain keywords (something i do on a regular basis in my
> use of bugs.kde.org) i get more and more useless hits.

Setting the status to CLOSED - UNMAINTAINED surely meets the needs of both 
points of view.  It says that there is no-one to fix the bug, but if you want 
to do so by all means step up.

Anne

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