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Re: Being part of a community and behaving



On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:48:29PM +0000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Bj??rn Mork wrote:
> > md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> > > On Nov 17, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> > >> > This is what many still (retorically) wonder about: we the systemd 
> > >> > maintainers did not reject that change,
> > >>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;bug=746578
> > > Please try to be less selective in your quoting: the issue was still 
> > > being discussed.
> > I see.  So any systemd bug with a 'wontfix' tag is still considered open
> > for discussion?  That's good to know.  Thanks.
> 
> Isn't any (open) bug tagged wontfix still "open for discussion"? If you've
> got new information, or a new approach that the maintainer might prefer,
> you can post it to the bug and discuss it with the maintainer...

It appears to be a misnomer then. I read 'wontfix' as "I'm not going to
to fix it as I don't see it as a bug."

Or am I confusing an open wontfix with a closed wontfix? 

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oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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