Who moved my bug?

[shmuel siegel]

Brian Pepple wrote:
> Or the thread were the proposal was originally discussed by the
> community before it was brought to FESCo.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg01359.html
>
> Later,
> /B
>   
Thanks for the reference. It was a pleasure reading a long thread that 
was constructive throughout. But I do want to point out two things.

1) Developers who have no interest in triage might not have watched this 
thread. In particular, they might not have realized the consequence of 
the bugzilla workflow changes. Also, as was pointed out in the thread, 
users would not understand that ASSIGNED meant something different in 
Fedora than in other open source projects. The point is that this 
discussion and decision making process occurred within a limited 
audience, not necessarily including everybody who will be affected. It 
should not be surprising that other audiences will object when they 
realize the consequences of the changes.
2) As the subject was reopened in this list and needed another committee 
discussion to close the issue, the conclusion should have been 
communicated to this list, preferably as a note to the thread that 
reopened the discussion.

That said, I really want to praise Jon for a well thought out proposal 
for improving the bugzilla workflow. Also, after the last few flame wars 
that I have watched, the entire approach to community input was refreshing.