Bug Deletion

Daniel Berlin dberlin at dberlin.org
Mon Aug 1 12:54:10 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 13:07 +0200, Frédéric Buclin wrote:
> Max Kanat-Alexander a écrit :
> > 	So, bug deletion is a bad idea. We keep telling people this.
> > 
> > 	We tell them instead to move their bugs to a graveyard product that
> > nobody can access but the admins.
> > 
> > 	Why don't we just modify "bug deletion" to do that? We can get rid of
> > bug deletion, and replace it with a param called something like
> > "graveyard_product_name".
> > 
> > 	-Max
> 
> 
> Bug deletion works perfectly well. I see no reason to remove this 
> feature. I don't see why bug deletion would be a bad idea.
> 
Because some people confuse bug systems with version control, and think
the bug system should not be allowed to truly delete information, even
if it is only historical.






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