[development] death to "x.y.z" version is now inevitable

[andrew morton]

On 11/14/06, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:
> Moshe Weitzman wrote:
> > isn't that basically what status=postponed means? we should remove
> > 6.x-dev or postponed, IMO.
>
> postponed is a wasteland that no one will ever look at except when there isn't
> enough to do already. postponed can mean a lot of things, and in general means
> "it isn't that important."

I've taken to thinking of it as a polite synonym for won't fix. I'm a
bit ashamed to admit that I don't think I've ever re-opened an issue
on any of my modules once I've marked postponed. I've taken to either
closing them or marking them as feature requests for the next version.

andrew