On 07/31/10 06:27, Tobias Mueller wrote: > Hey folks, > > On 31.07.2010 02:19, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: >> Hi Olav & infra, >> >> Given that we don't make the UNCONFIRMED vs NEW distinction in GNOME (AFAIK), >> can we just remove UNCONFIRMED? >> > Eh. You (not you in person) are supposed...
I know what I'm *supposed* to do. What I'm saying is that given what people *actually* do, I think it makes sense to remove UNCONFIRMED. > ...to mark bugs that are identified of being an issue worth fixing as NEW. > As opposed to bugs that are not an issue Which would be NOTABUG or some variant. > or not yet reproducible. That way, potential > contributors see what's worth being worked on. The problem is, sometimes the effort needed to "confirm" a bug is the same effort as fixing it. And when no maintainer has spent that effort yet, some user comes across the bug and say "7 years and still not confirmed". At the end of the day, the reality is that no one cares about confirmed or not. The bug is either fixed, or not fixed. > Cmp. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status: > > UNCONFIRMED > This bug has recently been added to the database. So, should bugs be automatically moved out of UNCONFIRMED after two weeks? Three months? A year? 5? And into which state? This "recency" part is problematic in its own right. > Nobody has validated that this bug is true. Sometimes it's impossible to validate unless digging straight into the code. > NEW > This bug has recently been added to the assignee's list of bugs and Again, what does this "recently" mean? Bugs may stay in bugzilla open for years (like, 10 years). What's recent about them? > must be processed. Excuse me? "must"? Bottomline: you can word it as you wish, but as a maintainer, I've only seen it adding bugzilla noise. And I'm speaking of my experience watching the entire traffic on glib, pango, gtk+, vte, gnome-terminal, gucharmap, gnome-common, and a couple other bugzilla products for quite a few years. You can't WONTFIX it, but it's not NOTABUG. :P Cheers, behdad > Bugs in this state may be accepted, and become > ASSIGNED, passed on to someone else, and remain NEW, or resolved and > marked RESOLVED. > > Cheers, > Tobi > _______________________________________________ gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
