https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383753
Bug ID: 383753
Summary: Consider changing some resolution statuses in
bugs.kde.org to avoid making some people feel bad
Product: bugs.kde.org
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: sysad...@kde.org
Reporter: pointedst...@zoho.com
CC: she...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
I've noticed that users on bugs.kde.org whose bugs are closed with the RESOLVED
INVALID status sometimes seem to take offense, and occasionally even assume
they have been insulted. When closing bugs with this status, I find myself
pre-emptively explaining the meaning of the status to avoid offending people by
adding something like:
I'm marking this as RESOLVED INVALID, which just means that it's not our
bug.
Similarly, WONTFIX implies that we know it's a bug, but are spitefully refusing
to fix it, which is not at all the intention of the status.
We might consider changing INVALID to NOTABUG or NOTOURBUG or something else a
little softer, or even adding a HARDWAREISSUE status.
And we might consider changing WONTFIX to ASDESIGNED or INTENTIONAL.
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