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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: bugzilla@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Killing VERIFIED state, possibly introducing STABILIZED
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:03:45
Message-Id: 20160617110245.49823b35.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] bugs.g.o: Killing VERIFIED state, possibly introducing STABILIZED by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:02:13 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Hello, everyone.
5 >
6 > Here's the third bugs.g.o redesign RFC.
7 >
8 > This time it's about closed bugs. Right now we have two states for
9 > them: RESOLVED and VERIFIED.
10 >
11 > RESOLVED is the usual state that the developers use when they close
12 > a bug. It's also the only state that could be directly transferred from
13 > other states.
14 >
15 > VERIFIED is used scarcely, and not really consistently. It can only be
16 > used on RESOLVED bugs, and sometimes users use it to confirm that
17 > the bug is resolved.
18 >
19 > To be honest, I don't really see the need for VERIFIED state. Since
20 > it's used scarcely, it can't be really relied upon. Some users use it
21 > completely incorrectly (e.g. when the bug should be reopened instead).
22
23 Since nobody seemed to mind, I've disabled VERIFIED now. I've also
24 loosened the workflow so that all (old) VERIFIED bugs can be reopened
25 directly.
26
27 For stabilization thing, I'm going to wait for more replies/ideas.
28
29 --
30 Best regards,
31 Michał Górny
32 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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