[webkit-dev] UNCONFIRMED bugs

[Dirk Pranke]

I have used other bug trackers that have something like an "AVAILABLE"
state to indicate that a bug is actionable or confirmed, but that no
one is currently working on it. Such a state is very useful. Would
such a thing be useful here, and would it make sense to try and use
NEW for that (although I find NEW to be a bad choice of names for
this), or is that just not practical?

-- Dirk

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org> wrote:
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> 20.06.2011, в 9:42, Darin Adler написал(а):
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>> We should probably turn off the UNCONFIRMED state. At this time in the WebKit project there is no useful distinction between UNCONFIRMED and NEW.
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>> I haven’t seen any useful distinction between UNCONFIRMED, NEW, ASSIGNED, and REOPENED in the WebKit bug database. While I can imagine projects where those are used to communicate something helpful to bug management, this is not true of our project at this time.
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> I previously objected to removing UNCONFIRMED, since NEW practically meant "someone who knows what an actionable bug looks like has seen this", and I've been using this distinction when choosing whether to open a bug from my RSS feed. This distinction has eroded since then, so I also think that we don't need UNCONFIRMED any more.
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> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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