Re: Version tracking in the BTS

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:59:17AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The idea is that a maintainer can divide bugs by the actions needed:
> 
>     * patch: apply the patch, build, test, upload
>     * moreinfo: no action -- waiting for more info
>     * wontfix: no action -- won't fix anyway
>     * unclassified: reproduce, analyse, come up with solutions
>     * confirmed: analyse, come up with solutions
> 
> Bugs tagged "help", "unreproducible", and "upstream" aren't separated
> out from unclassified at the moment; maybe "confirmed" shouldn't be
> split from unclassified.

IMHO it's useful to split out confirmed. For packages with large bug
lists, splitting confirmed from still-be-to-be-analysed reports is
a big improvement.

thanks,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>