Matej Cepl <mcepl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 2008-02-25, 20:05 GMT, Jon Stanley wrote:
> The ASSIGNED state is a state that has a new meaning - it used
> to mean that the bug was actually assigned to a person.
> Instead, it now means that the bug is capable of being worked
> on by a maintainer - i.e. the triage team believes that this is
> a complete, actionable bug - i.e. with a stack trace for
> a crasher, various log files for other components, complete AVC
> message for SELinux stuff, etc.
a) I totally agree not to require retooling — Red Hat Bugzilla
maintainers are totally buzzy with upgrading to Bugzilla 3.2
(yay!!!) but Red Hat BZ is so heavily modified that this is
crazy amount of work.
b) ASSIGNED state is really ambiguous, but its definition is not
what is important about it (and believe me, as a former
lawyer, I like heated discussions about definitions ;-)). To
make further discussion more understandable I will venture
with these definitions of ASSIGNED, but I repeat this is not
what's important, the further discussion is.
So, ASSIGNED could mean:
1) The bug has been triaged, and the triager believe that
there is nothing she can do about it and further decisions
about the bug have to be done by developers. (Further
discussion what this actually means would be endless, so
I will skip it here).
2) The bug has been put to the sack of particular developer(s)
and he will (sometime) work on it.
3) The bug is actively being worked on by a particular
developer(s).
My point is that in this discussion many people seem to confuse
2) and 3). I don't want to indulge here in the discussion whether
there should be a special state of the bug to distinguish between
these two, because I believe that THIS IS TOTALLY OUTSIDE OF THE
WORK OF BUG TRIAGERS. Our only job is to get bug to the state 1)
(or 2) at the best -- see below), but we have no business to tell
developers what they should do.
Distinguishing between 2 and 3 makes no sense. Should the bug move from 3
to 2 when the developer calls it quit for the day, and go back to 3 the
next morning?
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