Steve Grubb wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 05:46:52 Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Please leave my packages alone. I leave them in NEW until I've had a
chance to review them. If you change it, I may think I've already taken
some action action.
I guess triagers hear this a lot... I know I've been talking to several
people about this, but has a serious request for a CONFIRMED status or
flag ever been put in with the bugzilla maintainers?
Not by me, I'm generally too busy to read in detail all that is going on
within Fedora. Its only when things affect me that I start talking about it.
So, what does CONFIRMED mean? If something were not CONFIRMED, I still don't
want people to close it before I look at it. Sometimes even an invalid bug has
some good suggestions that I may want to consider.
I also wonder what is the point of this exercise? A bug in NEW that is a year
old is one thing, a bug that is in NEW for 1 day is another. It would seem
that bugs over a certain age are really a problem that is "stuck" and may need
intervention. But, its been my experience that getting bugs from NEEDINFO back
to ASSIGNED or MODIFIED to CLOSED are where the problems are.
Sorry, I maybe should have elaborated on a CONFIRMED status/flag a
little more;
Right now when a bug is created it is in status NEW. Triagers may or may
not fire at will at these bugs and get some additional information,
close the bug NOTABUG, see the bug is solved in NEXTRELEASE or RAWHIDE,
whathaveyou. I *think* overall this helps people (like you?) in that you
don't need to hunt down additional information from people logging bogus
bugs against the packages you maintain, but like lots of other people,
we do not read all email we get from bugzilla (which right now is the
only real notification you get on the bug, if we don't take those bugs
into account that have not rightfully been set to ASSIGNED, right?).
However, from there (the NEW status), there is no additional available
indicator to let people know the bug has been "triaged" (someone has
requested additional information, the bug has been reproduced, etc.),
other then changing the status to "ASSIGNED" -which is what some people
are complaining about, which is understandable. Hence the thought about
a CONFIRMED status or flag, indicating "someone knowledgeable has looked
at the bug" -hopefully taking some workload off the shoulders of people
that are to actually resolve bugs.
Since this is just an idea, I'd like to see what other people think
about ways of letting a triager indicate the bug is triaged/reviewed
without disturbing existing workflows too much...
Any thoughts?
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
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