[Zope-dev] Re: [Collector] Strange reject policy

[Casey Duncan]

In retrospect I probably should have just marked it as deferred rather
than rejected, the idea was more to provoke action (which I did) then to
reject it as not-a-bug.

-Casey

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:54:58 +0200
Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:

> I got a reject message for "http://collector.zope.org/Zope/444"
> with the comment:
> 
>    ZClasses are not being actively maintained, so unless you provide a
>    patch, it is not likely to be fixed.
> 
> I see this as a strange reject policy.
> 
> In my view, bug reports in the collector should only be rejected
> when they are not bugs or when they can not longer occur.
> We want that people with strange effects look into the collector
> to find out whether this is a known problem, don't we?
> Rejected bug reports are much more difficult to find than
> open ones.
> 
> In this case, the issue reports a true bug which pose a potential
> security risk because a permission mapping unexpectedly has no effect.
> 
> 
> I do not argue that this bug needs a fix but the report should at
> least be easily found.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dieter