Hello David, thanks for your report! The first few versions of DebGTD behaved in the way you expect: all non-asleep, non-ignored bugs were displayed in the main GtkTreeView.
However, in July 2008 the 'Triage' window was added. From that point onwards, the main TreeView only displays bugs that are also triaged. The reasoning is thus: every bug is like a "TODO" item, and you need to know what the next action is for each todo item before you can reasonably prioritise them. The way that the triage window works (showing you bugs one at a time, not letting you choose an order) is also on purpose: if you need to decide on a next action for every bug, attempting to sort the list in any way is a distraction from the task at hand. One thing I have been intending to do but haven't managed yet is to switch out the TreeView with a label (or similar) when you have no triaged bugs, explaining that you need to triage bugs to have them appear in the list. The rule of thumb should be something like this: for each bug, if you can complete the bug in under two minutes, do so, otherwise, record what the next action on the bug needs to be (such as: confirm this still happens, check to see if it's reported upstream, etc.) and move onto the next bug. This was a fairly big change from the previous behaviour and DebGTD as it stands is fairly incomplete. I'm not sure what the best thing to do is once you have finished triaging, for example: is a sortable list of open bugs really the best way to proceed? (I suspect that sorting on "next action" would be useful if e.g. you wanted to do a batch of "confirm this still happens"-style work in one go...) DebGTD is really an experiment, trying to explore the best workflow for a bug reporter. As such, I am open to suggestions from people who have tried it and can think of ways it should be improved: if it was just for me, there would have been no point in uploading it :-) So based on what I've written here, I'd love to know what you think of this flow and where it might be improved. Thanks, -- Jon Dowland
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