On 20 September 2011 14:16, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:26:22 PM UTC-6, jdunck wrote: > > Well, I meant to mark accepted as endorsement of the patch, but that > > made me owner. > > Yeah, this is confusing in our Trac UI. The "accept" radio button at the > bottom assigns the ticket to you, it doesn't actually do anything with > the triage state. To change the ticket from DDN to Accepted you'd use > the dropdown next to "Triage Stage" up in the box above. > > I'd be in favor of just removing that "accept" radio button if it isn't > hard to do; doesn't do anything you can't do with the "reassign" option, > just gets confused with the triage state. >
I too am in favour of removing this button, if that's possible. It adds no value and causes confusion. > I can't own it since I'm not a core committer. > > Hmm, I wasn't aware of this policy. We don't seem to make real > consistent use of the "owned by" field, but as far as I was aware it was > just a way to signal that you were working on this ticket so someone > else with interest would check with you before diving in and doing a > bunch of work. I thought anybody could make use of this field if they > planned to push the ticket forward and wanted to signal that. > There is actually a policy for using this field which more or less matches your assumption. It is documented here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/submitting-patches/#claiming-tickets However, the doc could certainly do with further clarifications. Patches welcome :P Julien -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
