A patch I proposed nine weeks ago to improve project the project issue review process went nowhere.
Issue: http://www.drupal.org/node/17052 Patch: http://drupal.org/files/issues/admin_configurable_status_options.patch
But (not to be deterred, since I still believe barriers to community participation in the development process are the most pressing issues in Drupal development) I have another, much more modest suggestion, that I think could help move things along without (gasp) changing code.
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My proposal: that we change "fixed" to mean "ready to commit" or "meets acceptance criteria (i.e., works as promised and is a worthwhile change fitting with Drupal aims and principles)". That way, qualified developers can designate a patch as ready to apply. If it is applied, the CVS committer would set the status to "closed".
This does need code change, since currently "fixed" bugs are periodically marked as "closed" by some cron script. Goba