Re: Issues list status

[James Lowe]

On 15/09/15 15:27, James wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On 15/09/15 13:57, Phil Holmes wrote:
>> A comment and a question about the status field of the issues list.
>>
>> Comment: with Google code, the status was automatically set to "Accepted" 
>> for issues manually entered by a registered user.  I see no reason for not 
>> continuing this policy, but it does mean that bug squad members (and 
>> anyone else entering issues) needs to remember to set the status manually.
>>
>> Question: there's a number of patches from _ages_ ago 
>> labelled "needs_work".  I believe we should change them to "abandoned", 
> Actually - after reading the CG for how patches are handled (I am
> currently updating the CG here), it is the Patch Meister's
> responsibility every 6 months or so to list all patches that are
> needs-work to see if they should be changed to abandoned and preferably
> by the dev who had the patch.
> 
> So i will try to do that on the next countdown.

Sorry I didn't have time to get to the 'patch abandoned' issues for this
countdown.

As the weekend is coming up, I'll have more time then and will get
something together- probably for Saturday (19th).

James