Marking zapped bugs

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Sep 2 20:51:51 UTC 2011


Matt McCutchen (matt at mattmccutchen.net) said: 
> We have a number of options here which vary in implementation effort and
> how much burden they impose on user and/or maintainer to get what they
> want from an inadequate representation:
> 
> 1. Status quo: hard to distinguish expired from WONTFIX.
> 2a. Add EXPIRED resolution and use it.
> 2b. Co-opt an existing little-used custom resolution, e.g., CANTFIX
> (semantically questionable on its face, but maybe reasonable in light of
> the explanation on
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status ).

This (using CANTFIX instead of WONTFIX) seems like the simplest
one to me.

Bill


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