The impending end of FC2 NEEDINFO bugs...

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun May 29 05:10:39 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 19:06 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> > 
> > CANTFIX
> > 
> > This is a better answer in some cases to WONTFIX... but leads to even
> > more bugzilla choices... (Some anthropologist looking at this in 100
> > years will say "Bugzilla users like eskimos had 200 ways of saying
> > CLOSED.)
> > 
> > 
> 
> I think it should have been CANTFIX instead of WONTFIX from the 
> beginning.  Are there really cases where CANTFIX doesn't fit a situation 
> where you mean WONTFIX?
> 

Sure, when you're closing crack RFE requests.

I've closed a number of items with wontfix when I really wanted to say
'this is an extremely bad idea'

-sv





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