Wishlist vs. cleaning the bug system

[George Staikos]

On Monday 17 February 2003 15:57, Christian Esken wrote:
> Am Sunday 09 February 2003 23:55 schrieb George Staikos:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> >    Just a friendly reminder to developers to please keep track of your
> > bugs on http://bugs.kde.org/ .  We did a great job before 3.1.0 closing
> > obsolete bugs, fixing the easy ones, and starting some communication to
> > fix the not-so-easy ones.  Since 3.1.0, our counts have (understandably)
> > been going up again, with over 4500 open bugs.  In some cases, all that's
> > need is a ping to the bug reported to verify that things work now.
>
> What are we going to do with wishlist items? For example
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45698
>
> I don't have a SUN , I don't have a smartcard reader. The chances are more
> than slim that this wish will ever be fulfilled.
>
> On the one hand I don't want "impossible" stuff in the Buglist, on the
> other hand users need a place for wishes. How do we gon on from here?

   We leave wishlists that are reasonable until someone has the motivation to 
implement them.  This is the way it always works I think.  What else can we 
do?

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George Staikos