Bug Deletion

[Thomas, Steve]

Bug deletion is sometimes a good idea, sometimes a bad idea, depending on why you are doing it. This can be said for file deletion on an OS, food deletion in your kitchen, and so on. Good/bad depends on the context.
 
I have had *several* reasons over the years to need to delete bug entries, such as testing, starting a project in Bugz that never became a real project, and so on. Yes, you might be able to archive these things, but, in the opinion of this user / administrator of this system, the information is useless and cluttersome, and should be deleted. Its very arrogant of a software system to assume that it knows more than I do about my own situation.
 
Speaking of that though, I personally have NOT used Bugzilla in a while (until very recently), so I don't know if deleting a bug is easy to do now or not.
 
 
 
Steve Thomas
 
 

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From: developers-owner at bugzilla.org on behalf of Max Kanat-Alexander
Sent: Mon 8/1/2005 3:52 AM
To: developers at bugzilla.org
Subject: Bug Deletion



        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
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