One of the issues I see is that 'In progress' doesn't indicate when the feature/bug might be addressed. This makes it hard to plan and drive to a release, especially with partial checkin model being followed. Just my concerns.
Satheesh Bernt M. Johnsen wrote: >Well, first of all. Jira has a nice link called "In Progress" in the >browse-project-page (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY) and >it does not have any "open and assigned" link. > >Secondly, "assigned" is not an an issue status in while "in progress" >is. > >Thirdly, I think that people should assign to an issue which they >seriously intend to work with and set it to "in progress" when they >are actually working on it (which of course ussually should be at the >same time, but not always). > >
