On Monday, 12 December 2016 18:13:57 CET Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, David Edmundson wrote: > > In terms of bugzilla workflow, we need to indicate 3 possible states of > > > > who we are waiting on: > > - needs bugzilla input from a developer (current unconfirmed) > > - needs bugzilla input from the reporter (current needsinfo) > > - doesn't require any further bugzilla input (current confirmed/resolved > > > > as appropriate) > > But are the states just there to reflect that we're waiting on something? > > > I don't think it can be done in any fewer statuses, and I don't really see > > how it requires any more. > > As I said before, and I handle the second-biggest KDE project in terms of > new bugs per year, my workflow would be easier with more states, and I'll > describe them, instead of using existing terms:
I think that David was talking about the "needinfo" condition. > > [...] > On a tangent, but something I've wanted to bring up for long time... > > Yeah, they're nuts. Well, maybe not nuts, but bugzilla is a poster-child > of rudeness towards people who want to help. RESOLVED/WONTFIX, RESOLVED/ > INVALID -- that all reads as "BUGGEROFF/YOUIDIOT. This is not bugzilla "per se". We can't change the name of the resolution. I've seen CANTFIX otherwise, but of course we can find more friendly values. -- Luigi