Help me triage

[Matej Cepl]

On 2008-09-24, 02:22 GMT, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Please leave my packages alone. I leave them in NEW until I've 
> had a chance to review them. If you change it, I may think I've 
> already taken some action action.

Hi, Steve,

I follow the discussion coming out of this message with a keen 
interest, but I would vote strongly (as only one of bug zappers), 
against any individual exceptions from the general policies 
described on 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow 
I would totally welcome any comments and criticism for this 
workflow AS WHOLE, but if we get too much in the exception 
business whole process would get too complicated for volunteers 
bug zappers.

Having said that, I totally understand, that we should 
accommodate developers workflows as well (or in the first 
place?). I don't think that introducting CONFIRMED (or 
UNCONFIRMED) bug status is a good solution, because it a huge 
undertaking which would be friendly to some but hostile all 
others who managed to turn around their workflows around the 
current environment. For all those, whom the workflow suggested 
at the above URL doesn't fir into how they do thinks (and I was 
talking about that with some of them and they seemed to agree 
with me in the end; yes, Tomáš, I am looking at you! ;-)) I would 
point to the existence of the still living status ON_DEV. It is 
now of no use to anybody and there is no official use for it, 
however it still remains here (so that old bugs don't have to be 
converted, or something -- I am not sure what exact reasons lead 
bugzilla maintainers to keep it around, but good they did).

Wouldn't it be possible for you to redefine ASSIGNED as "this is 
bug-triaged and really on my plate to do something about it, 
eventually" and then use ON_DEV as "the stuff I am working on 
right now"? By this, we (I hope) can acommodate your needs, and 
still we don't have to make big changes in our bugzilla (and bug 
zappers workflow).

Any comments?

Best,

Matěj