Re: Managing our issues list (discharges action QT4CG-038-01)

> 
> - When I learned the word 'actionable', it was apparently used only in
>  legal contexts 

Sorry about that. Merriam-Webster has

1
: subject to or affording ground for an action <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/action> or suit at law
2
: capable of being acted on


and I was using meaning (2).
> 
>   
> - I assume that one reason to close an issue with no action is not that
>  it's undecidable, unresolvable, or non-actionable, but just that it
>  proposes something that we decide we do not wish to do.  So I guess
>  that "propose to close with no action" can be *either*
> 
>    - a way of marking an issue as too broad (perhaps because it has
>      grown too many legs in its discussion) and not resolvable with a
>      single decision, *or*
> 
>    - a way of deciding an issue ('we will do nothing').
> 

Yes. But there's a whole range of reasons for closing with no action including "this is a really bad idea", "this is a good idea but we've decided not to do it", "this is not actually an issue at all", "this is a problem but no-one has proposed a workable solution and we can live with it", "no one seems to be prepared to do the work to take this further".


Michael Kay
Saxonica