Re: Tracker states: RAISED, OPEN, CLOSED

Hi Shawn,

> @2008-06-05 21:21 -0700:
> Some history on our issue tracker states since they came up on the
> telecon today:

Thanks for taking time to look into it.

> Originally we only had OPEN & CLOSED. We asked for NEW and instead got
> RAISED because another working group had a similar request and I think
> adding RAISED to the Tracker software had already been in the works.
> RASIED was added around 12/18/2007. The enumerated values for state
> are not managed directly by the HTML WG but by the W3 Systeam (and I
> believe the lead developer for the Tracker product is still "Dom"
> (Dominique Hazael-Massieux.)

Yeah, I guess Dom is currently doing most or all the coding,
though for the record, the Tracker is officially maintained by the
systems team as a group (and nobody should please don't e-mail Dom
directly about bugs or feature requests..)

> That's my knowledge dump... since some of these actions happened
> entirely via my inbox and I didn't CC www-archive at the time.

The above seems to me an accurate description of how it that state
in the Tracker came about.

  --Mike

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