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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:27:44
Message-Id: 20050821002323.21d55f42@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things by "Nathan L. Adams"
1 On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:23:23 -0400 "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
2 wrote:
3 | As R Hill already pointed out, WONTFIX means that the *bug* will never
4 | be fixed. Fixing the *ebuild* would fix the bug, so WONTFIX isn't the
5 | right keyword. Following your logic, all bugs dealing with ebuild
6 | should be marked WONTFIX; in the ebuild's current state the bug wont
7 | be fixed. Its just not a logical argument.
8 |
9 | What Ciaran is actually doing is assigning the bug back to the person
10 | that submitted the ebuild. So ASSIGNED or something new like
11 | CONTRIB_ASSIGNED would be appropriate.
12
13 *shrug* If you can persuade Jeff to deal with the pain of adding
14 another bugzilla resolution (which is nowhere near as easy as adding
15 keywords) I'll use it. But really, WONTFIX is just fine. As the bug
16 stands, it won't be fixed.
17
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19 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
20 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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