Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 2:09 AM Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bug > states with a simple NEW state. Why? > > 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two statuses > in a meaningful way. > > 2. Some users are confused

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi all, I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bug states with a simple NEW state. Why? 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two statuses in a meaningful way. 2. Some users are confused and demotivated by having their bugs stay UNCONFIRMED for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Mike Pagano
On 12/3/22 08:59, Florian Schmaus wrote: On 03/12/2022 14.50, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 14:45 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: I think having UNCONFIRMED / CONFIRMED *helps* the issue reporter, and other (affected) persons, to decide if they need to "chase" the issue's assigned

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 03/12/2022 14.50, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 14:45 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: I think having UNCONFIRMED / CONFIRMED *helps* the issue reporter, and other (affected) persons, to decide if they need to "chase" the issue's assigned entity. Assume looking at the open bugs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 14:45 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: > I think having UNCONFIRMED / CONFIRMED *helps* the issue reporter, and > other (affected) persons, to decide if they need to "chase" the issue's > assigned entity. > > Assume looking at the open bugs list of a developer. If the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 03/12/2022 13.20, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 13:10 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: On 03/12/2022 12.34, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 11:42 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: On 03/12/2022 08.09, Michał Górny wrote: Hi, I'd like to propose replacing the current

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 13:10 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: > On 03/12/2022 12.34, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 11:42 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: > > > On 03/12/2022 08.09, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2022, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Some people found that not satisfactory, so NEW and ASSIGNED were > replaced by CONFIRMED and IN_PROGRESS. (We also had status REOPENED > which was removed with the same change.) Unfortunately, I cannot find > the old discussion, but [1] suggests

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 03/12/2022 12.34, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 11:42 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: On 03/12/2022 08.09, Michał Górny wrote: Hi, I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bug states with a simple NEW state. Why? 1. Only a handful of developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2022, Michał Górny wrote: >> > I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED >> > bug states with a simple NEW state. Why? >> >> > 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two statuses >> > in a meaningful way. >> >> > 2. Some users are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 11:42 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote: > On 03/12/2022 08.09, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bug > > states with a simple NEW state. Why? > > > > 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 03/12/2022 08.09, Michał Górny wrote: Hi, I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bug states with a simple NEW state. Why? 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two statuses in a meaningful way. 2. Some users are confused and demotivated by having

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Toralf Förster
On 12/3/22 10:53, Michał Górny wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 09:39 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: Then rename UNCONFIRMED to NEW-WITH-SUGAR-ON-TOP-WE-ARE-A-HAPPY- COMMUNITY, Done. I do search for bugs using pybugz and gre3p for CONFIRMED and do wonder if/when I shall grep for NEW too ? --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 09:39 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 03 Dec 2022, Michał Górny wrote: > > > I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED > > bug states with a simple NEW state. Why? > > > 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2022, Michał Górny wrote: > I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED > bug states with a simple NEW state. Why? > 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two statuses > in a meaningful way. > 2. Some users are confused and demotivated

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-02 Thread Sam James
> On 3 Dec 2022, at 07:09, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bug > states with a simple NEW state. Why? > > 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two statuses > in a meaningful way. > > 2. Some users are

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Removing the distinction between UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bugs

2022-12-02 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, I'd like to propose replacing the current UNCONFIRMED and CONFIRMED bug states with a simple NEW state. Why? 1. Only a handful of developers actually uses these two statuses in a meaningful way. 2. Some users are confused and demotivated by having their bugs stay UNCONFIRMED for a long