[mythtv-users] Can anyone tell me why Ticket 6382 has been closed?

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
> Zitat von Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>:
>
>> Moreover, feature requests *are* being looked at, they're just being
>> done at a rate that allows the still-small dev contingent to also
>> manage to deal with real life and still pay the mortgage.  I know that
>> the developer credo might seem a bit impenetrable, but the truth is a
>> lot of thoughtful discussion goes on in e-mails and in IRC out of the
>> general view of many users.  What might seem a summary closing of a
>> ticket is often backed by deep discussion via one of those mediums.
>> Yes, maybe it would be nice to be more verbose sometimes, we're trying
>> madly to get a release out and that means addressing large numbers of
>> tickets in a short period of time, and sometimes not being able to be
>> as attentive to people's feelings as we might otherwise be.
>
> I wonder why requests are closed at all if no patch is included. I was a bit
> puzzled when one of my requests was closed with the comment "Great idea!".
>
> I perfectly understand why requests might not be fulfilled until someone is
> going to contribute code. We have open tickets that are years old in Horde,
> and I see the same in other OSS projects. For me this makes perfectly sense,
> because this way you can track requests that make sense and might be
> implemented by someone at some point. If they are closed, they are basically
> lost.
>
> I suggest that only those requests are closed that are either fulfilled or
> don't make any sense. Anything else should stay open until they are done, so
> that they are easier to find.
>

It just comes down to project philosophy/bureaucracy, and the general
MO of this project is that trac is a place for bugs, and that the wiki
feature request page is for feature requests.  Trac would quickly
become very very painful to navigate if we were tracking feature
requests there as well-- we already get behind enough with just bug
tickets, as evidenced by the wait between the opening and closing of
this ticket.

So, in short:  Trac for bugs, wiki feature request page for FRWOPs
(Feature Requests Without Patch).

Robert