Fedora bug workflow - process change

[Manuel Wolfshant]

Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote, at 02/26/2008 07:16 PM +9:00:
>   
>> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:05 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
>>     
>>>  When a reporter enters a bug, the report automatically starts out in a
>>>  NEW state. The triage team will be primarily looking at bugs in this
>>>  state. From this state, the triage team can either change the status
>>>  to ASSIGNED (which indicates that the bug is well defined and
>>>  triaged), or use the NEEDINFO state to request additional information
>>>  from the reporter, or close the bug (either as a duplicate of an
>>>  existing one, or using other closure reasons - CANTFIX for problems
>>>  with proprietary drivers or kernels that have such drivers loaded, for
>>>  example).
>>>
>>>  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.
>>>       
>> IMO this is bad, as we don't differentiate between "this is a bug" and
>> "someone is actually working on it" then; ASSIGNED should mean what it
>> says, that a bug is assigned to a person or group of persons to work on
>> it. Perhaps another state (TRIAGED, VERIFIED?) should be
>> introduced/re-used for that.
>>
>> Nils
>>     
>
> +1.
>
> There are not a few cases where we have to discuss to whom
> a reported bug should be "assign"ed, i.e. the bug must be investigated
> before we can "assign" the one to someone. And I think that
> the current meaning of "ASSIGNED" is what _reporters_  expect.
>
> Mamoru
>
>   
I've asked a couple of friends around what would say understand if they
would have reported a bug and after a while would see it in "ASSIGNED"
state. All of them answered: "that it was assigned to a human who is
trying to fix it"