Let's get rid of UNCONFIRMED/CONFIRMED

Elvis Angelaccio elvis.angelaccio at kde.org
Tue Feb 27 19:39:31 GMT 2018


On martedì 27 febbraio 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.

Exactly. Also, what Luca said: unconfirmed gives the impression that we 
don't care about the bug.

My point is that confirmed/unconfirmed adds more problems than it solves.

>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
>




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