Re: networking bugs and bugme.osdl.org

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 01:27, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > That's a trivial change to make if you want it. we just add a "reviewed"
> > / "certified" state between "new" and "assigned". Yes, might be a good 
> > idea.  I'm not actually that convinced that "assigned" is overly useful
> > in the context of open-source, but that's a separate discussion.
> 
> Most bugzilla's seem to use VERIFIED for this, and it means people who
> have better things to do can just pull bugs that are verified and/or
> tagged with "patch" in the attachments

GCC just calls this "UNCONFIRMED" vs. "NEW", which seems to work well. 
A lot of the maintainers don't look at Bugzilla at all, and a lot of
the rest filter out UNCONFIRMED.  A couple of interested (and
dumbfoundingly dedicated) people review and confirm bugs; that's less
possible with the Linux kernel, since bugs often require hardware to
reproduce, but the principle is still sound.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer