Re: Issues list status

[Colin Campbell]

On 2015-09-15 08:36 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> Don't really like the idea of an undefined status.  If we don't go for 
> "invalid", perhaps another "closed" status of "abandoned" would be 
> better.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes

Abandoned patches are a bit different from closed issues, IMO.  It's 
absolutely necessary to keep the list of Open issues to a reasonably 
manageable size, so making Abandoned equivalent to closed seems wise. 
There may be some risk in losing the trail of work done, when the issue 
is closed by Abandoned,  although I suppose a decent search of the 
issues DB should turn up the bread crumbs. I also agree with James, that 
this is a good time to review the CG.

Cheers,
Colin
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