On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:27:07 +0300 Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:47:46 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:22:32 +0300 > > Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:26:47 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Hello, everyone. > > > > > > > > Here's my second RFC wrt bugs.gentoo.org redesign. > > > > > > > > Right now we have separate UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED states for bugs. > > > > However, we use the two scarcely. I believe it would be beneficial to > > > > replace the two with a single NEW state. > > > > > > > > Rationale: > > > > > > > > 1. Most of developers don't care about the two states, and which one > > > > bugs are in. > > > > > > > > 2. All bugs need to be handled the same, whether they were marked as > > > > confirmed or not. > > > > > > > > 3. We stage bugs through bug-wranglers@ which kinda has a similar > > > > purpose to the UNCONFIRMED state in other Bugzillas. > > > > > > > > 4. Some people who actually care about the two states change them, > > > > causing unnecessary bugspam. > > > > > > > > 5. Some users who think that the state matters get furious about bugs > > > > staying in UNCONFIRMED for long. > > > > > > > > Your thoughts? > > > > > > CONFIRMED state is useful, it means that dev or powerful user > > > confirmed this bug and gives it more value. I'd like to keep it. > > > > Are you saying that bugs that haven't been marked as CONFIRMED have > > less value? Maybe they don't have to be handled at all, unless someone > > you consider more worthy confirms them? > > Please don't exaggerate my words. "More value" doesn't imply that > other bugs have no value. Under some conditions it means order > of preference; e.g. if I'm not able to handle all bugs in a > timeslot I have, but I am able to fix something, I may prefer > confirmed bugs over unconfirmed ones, as bugs which are easier to > reproduce and are likely to affect more users. > > P.S. Please don't CC me when replying to my e-mails on the list, > since I'm already subscribed to the list. Please don't expect others to keep blacklists of people who can't handle their mail properly, or to generally harm others and ignore good practices because you can't handle your mail. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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