Changing these HTTP like codes, might okay for an internal representation, but would require ALOT of work to change several CPAN modules and ensure all the testers upgraded. There is also the fact that all existing reports are in the system and not going to change. Although I may have misunderstood your intentions.
Well, our reports are in XML, so we will already have to do an XSLT translation to get them down into something that the current stuff can handle.
So simplifying the status flags to make it palatable to the existing system should be fine.
As for future-proofing, the XML reports abstract data collection from data analysis, so we $should be able to upgrade the analaysis and rerun them on the old reports in our database.
Adam K
