On 14-05-2010 12:45:54 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Following Petteri's thread last month about RESOLVED LATER and given a > issue that has been reported to User Relations about the "ab"use of the > VERIFIED status in Bugzilla, I'd like to get some feedback from fellow > developers. > We have a user that has been marking resolved bugs as verified following > his actions on other bugzilla(s) and he quotes the Bugzilla Docs[1] to > explain his actions. Some developers have become upset because of the > "spam" email that action causes. > It seems to me the reason those developers got upset is that they don't > value the VERIFIED status so I wonder if anyone uses that status or if > we should just drop it. If possible and useful, would we like to > restrict the VERIFIED status change to a specific group of people? > Please share your thoughts on this so we can decide how to act on this case.
I'm all for removing it from the workflow. I take a opportunistic approach, assuming that the reporter (or someone else with the same problem) will reopen the bug if it turns out a fix wasn't good enough or something. > [1] - http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.4/en/html/lifecycle.html -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
