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

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

    > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:49:59 -0700
    > From: Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>

    > 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.

Since this seems to come up with great regularity and obviously
confuses many who are new to the way Myth handles Trac:

Is there any possibility of adding a flag to a bugreport in Trac that
says "feature request" and then allowing each Trac user to set a flag
(once) that then -excludes- such reports from day-to-day usage?  (This
would presumably also have to include not automatically sending mail
or they're not really "excluded" from spamming the inboxes of people
who don't want them.  I don't know if that's easy to do in Trac.)
Then they wouldn't get lost, and could remain open, but wouldn't get
in the way of triaging the database.

(The bug there is that if all devs turns off the feature-request view,
then everyone but the devs believes that developers might someday look
at them, when in fact they will never be seen.  That could already
happen on the wiki, but there's less of an implicit statement that
things on the wiki will be regularly seen and/or triaged. Nonetheless,
doing something like this might stop the steady stream of feature-
request/closed/please-explain/let's-discuss/etc that has been going
on forever.  And it'd be way more organized than trying to use the
wiki to track the same kind of thing.)