On 05.09.2018 04:28, Andrew Crouthamel wrote:
Hello,
As part of the "Streamlined onboarding of new contributors" goal from 2017
(https://phabricator.kde.org/T7116), Nate, myself, Julian, and others have been working on ways to
clean up Bugzilla, as well as the bug reporting and triaging system in the "Improvements to
Bugzilla - Making it easier and simpler" sub-task (https://phabricator.kde.org/T6832).
The next item on the list we would like to address is changing some of the
names of the Status fields and Resolved sub-fields. This is something that has
come up numerous times, but seems to fizzle out without a consensus. The last
major discussion regarding it was held early in the year, here:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2018q1/004395.html. And before
that, in this Bug report from Nate
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383753). I've read through these, merging
the feedback from everyone and with the team working on T6832 we'd like to
propose the following name changes:
UNCONFIRMED -> NEW
WONTFIX -> ASDESIGNED
INVALID -> NOTABUG
I still oppose to name a status NEW (again). It only attracts "how is
this NEW? this is already [random timespan here] OLD!" comments.
There will always be products/components that have no active maintainer
to look for bugs in a limited timeframe.
My suggestions are OPEN, REPORTED, or UNRESOLVED.
--
Christoph Feck
