Let's get rid of UNCONFIRMED/CONFIRMED

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Tue Feb 27 19:22:23 GMT 2018


On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:19:24 CET Martin Flöser wrote:
> Am 2018-02-27 13:43, schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> > On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:30:12 CET Paul Brown wrote:
> >> Is it true that users get confused by the bugtracking system? If so,
> >> this is
> >> an issue, right?
> > 
> > Well, users can get confused by _everything_. Though I probably have
> > more
> > absolutely non-technical users reporting bugs than most other KDE
> > projects. I
> > haven't seen many signs of users being confused by UNCONFIRMED vs
> > CONFIRMED,
> > though.
> 
> In KWin we get quite often the "bug open for X months and still
> unconfirmed!!!!" Which I have to answer with "unconfirmed has no meaning
> in the development of KWin". If we can get rid of this conflict area I
> would be very happy.
>

That's why I want to have a visible distiction between "reported, nobody 
looked at it yet" and "reported, someone looked at it, couldn't reproduce yet" 
that _does not mark the bug as resolved_.

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Boudewijn Rempt | https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org





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