The impending end of FC2 NEEDINFO bugs...

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Thu May 26 15:59:00 UTC 2005


Hi -

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:52:09AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Fair enough.  What about adding a resolution category "closed for lack
> > of information", which we could use if something stays in NEEDINFO
> > too long?  Or I suppose we could use WORKSFORME ...

> Why close them - some day someone may recognize the similarity
> between a few bugs in review, or a user may hit the same bug and
> have the needed information.

Closed bugs may still be located using keyword searches.  If they are
any more prominent than that, then there is little point even
pseudo-closing them.

> A new state indicating "we don't plan to do anything with this bug
> but the report is worth keeping" might be useful for making search
> easier but don't lose the data.

The NEEDINFO state seems adequate for this, as does CLOSED/DEFERRED.


- FChE
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