Hello Debbugs maintainers, I am one of the co-maintainers of the apt-listbugs package. During an attempt to improve apt-listbugs documentation with the help of the Debian English l10n mailing list regulars (in Cc), it turned out that some of the four bug status names are a bit misleading. The four names I am referring to are: 'forwarded', 'done', 'pending', and 'pending-fixed'. Those names come directly from the BTS SOAP interface. To be more precise, they come from the "pending" attribute returned by the BTS SOAP interface. Unfortunately I cannot find complete and updated documentation for this SOAP interface (http://wiki.debian.org/DebbugsSoapInterface seems to be incomplete, as it claims that the "pending" attribute may be either 'pending' or 'done'). Hence, I would like to ask for confirmation on some points. Please Cc me and debian-l10n-english on replies, thanks. First of all, my understanding of the meaning of those four statuses is: 'forwarded' means that the bug is open and forwarded to upstream 'done' means that the bug is marked as done 'pending' means that the bug is open, but not forwarded nor tagged "pending" 'pending-fixed' means that the bug is open, but tagged "pending" Do you confirm this? I believe that no other possible status may be returned by the BTS SOAP interface. Do you also confirm this? If my understanding of the four statuses is correct, it seems to me that their names are a bit misleading: while 'forwarded' and 'done' look basically OK to me, 'pending' seems a bit of a misnomer to me for a bug that is open, but not forwarded nor tagged "pending" (I would call it 'unfixed' or something like that); finally, 'pending-fixed' looks a bit awkward to me (I would simply call it 'pending', since it corresponds to the "pending" tag for open bugs). Since changing these names would break the SOAP interface, I am *not* suggesting to alter those attribute values. I am just asking for clarification on their meanings and on their names. Please let us know. Thanks for your time. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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