--- wikisrc/bugtracking.mdwn 2014/06/23 17:36:29 1.6 +++ wikisrc/bugtracking.mdwn 2014/06/26 13:52:33 1.7 @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ metadata) or to browse but to ask for a This basically constitutes a total failure of the bugtracker: it was completely unable to provide useful information of any kind. -I (dholland) have since learned some tricks and have also accumulated +I ([[dholland]]) have since learned some tricks and have also accumulated an external index for the database; this means I can get stuff out of it now, at least sometimes, but most developers are in the position I was then: the bug database is a completely useless black hole. @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ support for arbitrary metadata, which ma Note that in addition to the above analysis we also have some supporting results. -Based on the analysis I (dholland) started maintaining an annotated +Based on the analysis I ([[dholland]]) started maintaining an annotated browseable index (aka the "buglists" pages) of the bug database. This basically amounted to additional per-bug metadata of several kinds, organized in a fashion that allowed generating an index as a @@ -425,6 +425,8 @@ does something useful. personal priority or other criteria. * A way to turn off mail for bouncing addresses. * A way to move misfiled comments from one PR to another. +* A way to mark bugs not merely as "closed" but one of fixed, + invalid, obsolete, or "won't fix". Some other stuff that would be nice: