Re: Bug#224742 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#224742: Related to this issue...)
Scripsit Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>
> * Henning Makholm
> | Quite right - nothing at all compels him to do anything at all to
> | *implement* the request. He seems to also want the power to prevent
> | people from at all voicing requests he does not like. That is *not*
> | fair. It is hiding problems.
> The BTS is not a dumping ground for random wishlist request.
Dumping? Random?
> The only reasons for leaving wontfix + wishlist requests open are if
> upstream doesn't want to implement it himself (not the case here) or
> upstream will refuse a patch.
How is that not the case here? It is completely well-documented that
upsteam *doesn't* not want to implement it himself, and there is every
indication that upstream would refuse a patch if somebody made it.
> Why leave it open?
To Not Hide Problems<tm>. To document the technical issues that people
have. To let the next maintainer [1] know that the wish exists, and
perhaps also why it might not be a good idea to implement it anyway
(though that sorta supposes that those who know of real reasons not to
implement it *disclose* those reason rather than just trying to
threaten not-knows into silence).
[1] None of us are going to live forever.
> | Why isn't the "close bugs to repress requests that I don't like" game
> | just as silly?
> Because wishlist requests in the BTS are the domain of the maintainer,
> not the user.
Why *should* it me the maintainer's domain to squelch deviant thought
in this way?
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