A few months ago, Alexandre started including lists of fixed bugs in his release announcements. See e.g. http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.15, which says
Bugs fixed in 1.1.15: 5694 Lionhead Black & White 2 demo crashes 7014 Unhandled page fault when exiting Commandos - BEL 7297 MIDI in/out fails, ports recognized ...
I rather like those lists. He generates them by simply querying for open but fixed bugs right when he does the release; he then closes the bugs. They're good for PR if nothing else.
For this to work, we have to let Alexandre be the only person to close fixed bugs. (Of course, it's ok for other people to mark bugs fixed, and it's ok for anyone to close invalid or dup bugs.) If anybody else closes a fixed bug, it won't show up in the list of fixed bugs for any release.
A corner case is when a bug is marked fixed sometime after release. I think it's ok to leave it for Alexandre to close; that way it shows up in at least one release announcement. Even if it shows up a few releases late, that's better than not showing up at all.
Sound reasonable?
I ask because Vitaliy closed http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10923 even after I tried to explain this to him, so I figured it needed a wider discussion. - Dan