How to use the new Launchpad status?

[Bruno Girin]

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 16:28 -0500, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:00 -0500, Benjamin Root wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> > > A new standard response to use when setting bugs to that status >
> > would be good. What about the following?
> >         
> > >       Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping >
> > make Ubuntu better. While we appreciate that the software does
> > >       not behave as you expect, we consider that it is a matter of
> > >       opinion whether it should be changed to accommodate your
> > >       requirement. This bug is being set to "Opinion" to indicate
> > >       that, although we do not consider it invalid, we will not >
> > start work on resolving it until we are satisfied that there >
> > are enough details on how to change the software without
> > >       compromising usability or existing features.
> >         
> >         
> >         
> >  
> > Personally, I would probably avoid the word "appreciate" as it might
> > get translated poorly to someone else's language to indicate that we
> > like it when the software does not work as expected...
> > 
> > Maybe "understand"?
> 
> Actually, the idea is that the bug is closed -- but marking INVALID
> carries a bad connotation. So we want to state that we will not work on
> this anymore, but please keep on discussing it.
> 
> New proposal:
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu
> better. This bug is being marked OPINION; this indicates we will not
> work on it, but all are free to express their opinions. It is possible
> that, in the future, we may revisit this bug.
> 
> @Bruno: If everybody is in agreement, would you mind adding this to the
> Responses?

No problem. If everybody agrees, I'll update the Reponses page. So if I
understand it properly, the idea is that OPINION is less "final" than
INVALID or WON'T FIX?

Bruno