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[Andrea Corbellini <andrea-bs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

I propose to use (UNDER)DISCUSSION. As Deryck pointed out on IRC, it
implies that the bug isn't actually closed. That's true, but however I
think that it's more intuitive for everyone. Also, if community members
are discussing on a bug, that bug can't be considered fully closed
because it may be reconsidered in the future.

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 09:13 -0500, Deryck Hodge wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> The question I'm interested in getting help with here will make more
> sense if you look at the LEP first:
> 
> https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/CloseBugsLeaveDiscussionsOpen
> 
> In short, we want to be able to close bugs in a way that will be
> friendlier and leave discussions open.  We're considering doing this
> by adding a new status.  This status would work like the closed bug
> statuses we have now, WONTFIX and INVALID.  It would, however, be
> named differently to communicate that discussion is free to continue.
> We have debated a few terms and tentatively settled on OPINION.  This
> is not a perfect term, but it's hard to come up with something better.
>  I'm wondering if any of the excellent minds here can think of a
> better term.  Please see all the previously considered terms on the
> LEP before proposing something new.
> 
> I know this question could be open to a lot of debate, but please keep
> in mind I'm only asking for help with the naming of this status.
> Mark, Jono L, and I have already discussed off list the idea that more
> statuses are bad, alternate solutions that don't require a new status,
> and more.  Every solution is imperfect for this.  We're interested in
> trying this as an experiment, and if it's done right, it would solve a
> particular problem prevalent in some of the communities using
> Launchpad bugs -- namely that people won't allow a bug to be closed
> because they want to continue discussing the issues around the bug.
> We'll be keeping metrics on this as its added, and if it proves to not
> make any difference, we'll back out the status and change bugs using
> OPINION (or whatever it ends up being called) to WONTFIX.  If you want
> to discuss the issues around the proposal more generally, please ping
> me or Jono L. offlist, or start a new thread on the mailing list.
> 
> So.... any ideas for a better term for this potential new status OPINION?  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> deryck
> 
>

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