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

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM,  <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>    > 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.)

Or how about a large message in trac to tell people that it is NOT the
place for feature requests, and directing them to the right place?