On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:29 -0400, Evan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Bruno Girin <brunogi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 09:53 -0500, Benjamin Root wrote: > >> Sounds like to me that it is a finer grained version of "Invalid". > >> The idea being that rather than possibly insulting the OP with an > >> "Invalid" statement, one could mark it as "Opinion" where it is > >> effectively closed, but leaves open the possibility that it might have > >> to be revisited later. > >> > >> I guess this helps to distinguish between the bugs that are blatantly > >> Invalid and the bugs that might be a little bit more ambiguous. > >> > >> At least, that is my interpretation... > > > > Thanks, that sounds like a sensible interpretation. So in terms of > > triaging, if the bug is one that we would normally set to invalid > > because even though the software does not behave as the OP thinks it > > should, the reasons for changing it are not clear cut, we would assign > > it the Opinion status rather than the Invalid status. > > > > I suspect that in this case, bugs in that status should also have a > > severity of Wishlist? > > > > A new standard response to use when setting bugs to that status would be > > good. What about the following? > > > > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to > > make Ubuntu better. While we appreciate that the software does > > not behave as you expect, we consider that it is a matter of > > opinion whether it should be changed to accommodate your > > requirement. This bug is being set to "Opinion" to indicate > > that, although we do not consider it invalid, we will not start > > work on resolving it until we are satisfied that there are > > enough details on how to change the software without > > compromising usability or existing features. > > Great. I find the last sentence a bit of a mouthful though. How about: > > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to > make Ubuntu better. While we appreciate that the software does > not behave as you expect, we consider it a matter of > opinion whether or not the behavior should be changed as you > suggest. This bug is being set to "Opinion" to indicate > that. Although we do not consider it invalid, we will not start > work on resolving it until we have a solution that solves your > problem without compromising existing functionality and usability.
I agree. I like yours better. Bruno -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
