I've been using ASSIGNED and assignee name to mean this... to me if
someone is assigned to something it is a promise to attempt to fix it.
I'm not sure how patch to review would be useful... Gerrit should be
the place to look for things to review - not bugzilla.

A RELEASED would however would be useful.

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> in December I mentioned the idea of having a "PATCH_AVAILABLE" or
> "PATCH_TO_REVIEW" status in Bugzilla [1] and that we should re-evaluate
> the idea once we have automatic notifications from Gerrit into Bugzilla
> in place [2]. This is now the case [3].
>
> From the Amsterdam Hackathon I know that some developers would like to
> filter on bug reports that have or don't have a patch in Gerrit, and
> easier finding of bug reports with a corresponding patch && lack of
> recent changes might provide another entry point for new developers
> (pick up the existing patch and finish it).
>
> Hence I propose
>       * to remove the manually set and error-prone Bugzilla keyword
>         "patch-in-gerrit": Every bug on its way to get RESOLVED FIXED
>         has to pass this stage anyway so a status feels more
>         appropriate, and
>       * to make the "Gerrit Notification Bot" automatically change the
>         bug report status to "PATCH_AVAILABLE"/"PATCH_TO_REVIEW" in
>         Bugzilla when a patch for that bug report has been committed
>         (not: merged) to Gerrit.
>
> Comments?
>
> andre
>
> [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-December/065046.html
> [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-December/065226.html
> [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17322
>
> PS: Making the Gerrit notification bot automatically close bug reports
> in Bugzilla after merging a patch in Gerrit, or differentiating in
> Bugzilla between "RESOLVED FIXED" (fix merged) and "RELEASED" (fix
> deployed on the Wikimedia wikisites) are also interesting topics to
> discuss at some point, but not in this thread. One step at a time.
> --
> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>
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