Hi all,

I notice a quality problem in bugzilla. Far too many issues are in status CONFIRMED which should not be there.

For comparing do a search with:
Bug created 'greater or equal' 2008-09-18 and 'less than' 2009-09-18
and status changed from CONFIRMED
and resolution is any of DUPLICATE, INVALID

and same for the next years.

And then do the same with status changed from UNCONFIRMED

You get
Year  from UNCONFIRMED from CONFIRMED
2009      >500            3
2010      >500            1
2011      >500            7
2012       204            82

Please, all those who have 'can confirm' rights in bugzilla, be more careful. - Your own new issue should be UNCONFIRMED. Someone else should confirm your issue, if possible on a different operating system. - Include duplicates in your search. You might not use the same words as the older active issue, but your words are likely used in already existing duplicates and those lead you to the active, already existing issue. - Make sure it is really a bug, and not only some settings or handling you miss.

There are additional problems:
- Operating systems are set to "all" although submitter has only used 1 system. - It is not clear, whether a problem occurs only with a special existing document or can be seen with new documents. - It is not clear whether the problem is new in our AOO or is inherited from OOo. - For import/export it is not clear, whether the different formats allow a correct mapping, or a mapping is not possible because of missing features.

To be clear, this is not about bug reports from users or persons, that are not familiar with the special problem, but about issues, which were set to CONFIRMED by someone. And from that person I expect, that he/she cares for such things.

Kind regards
Regina




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