[webkit-dev] UNCONFIRMED bugs

[Ryosuke Niwa]

For all practical purposes, NEW has been equivalent to AVAILABLE in WebKit.

- Ryosuke

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 20.06.2011, в 9:42, Darin Adler написал(а):
> >
> >> We should probably turn off the UNCONFIRMED state. At this time in the
> WebKit project there is no useful distinction between UNCONFIRMED and NEW.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
> >
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