Include untargeted resolved items in roadmap?

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Blue Ninja
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Include untargeted resolved items in roadmap?

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I'm wondering what other people's thoughts are on including resolved items with no target version in the roadmap for the version in which they were fixed.

Since the roadmap serves to gauge the progress of a release, then leaving out items resolved in it will skew the progress percentage. For example, issue 7508 (http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=7508) is resolved in 1.2.0a2, but never had a target version set. On the roadmap page, this item doesn't show up in the roadmap, which at the moment has 1 resolved and 2 open items. The percentage shows as 33% complete, but if you consider this resolved item, there are 2 resolved and 2 open items, meaning the real progress is 50%. (This does not factor in other resolved items for that release).

On my site, I find myself making sure that all issues have a target version, to ensure the roadmaps are as accurate as possible, since some of my clients use that to gauge project projress, and I don't want it looking like less progress has been made than there really was.

I was thinking of tweaking the code to include not just issues targeted at a particular version, but also issues with no target version that were resolved in that version. But if this is a feature others agree would be useful, then I'd rather let the MAntis pro's do it, and not have to re-modify my own code with each new release :-)

Perhaps a new variable would be suitable, to make this an option? Such as $g_roadmap_include_untargeted_resolved_issues?
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