Let's get rid of UNCONFIRMED/CONFIRMED

[Nate Graham]

I'll jump in too.

I think it's important to mention that Bugzilla is not purely a developer tool: it's an interface between developers and users. We can't neglect the user experience in favor of the developer experience. With thoughtful design, we should be able to handle both without compromising either.

These appear to be the concerns:
- Some users interpret "UNCONFIRMED" to mean "KDE doesn't care and the developers hate me!"
- Some KDE developers want the possibility of a more granular bug triaging workflow ("nobody's looked at it" -> "somebody looked at it but couldn't reproduce it yet" -> and "somebody looked at it and was able to reproduce it".

I can see the value in these statuses. Maybe we can support them while also using terminology that doesn't unnecessarily upset or confuse our users. How about this mapping:

OPEN -> Nobody's looked at it yet
TRIAGED -> Somebody looked at it but couldn't reproduce it yet
CONFIRMED -> Somebody looked at it and was able to reproduce it

None of these proposed "open" statuses--or for that matter any of the existing "open" statuses--make sense for wishlist bugs. Wishes don't need to be confirmed, triaged, new, etc. Could we also just have a single OPEN status for wishlist bugs?

Nate



---- On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:10:00 -0700 tetris4<tetris4 at gmail.com> wrote ---- 
 > Hi all,
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 > Sorry for bumping an old thread. I'm responsible for the Streamlined Onboarding goal and Bugzilla seems  to be a hot topic relating to this. This is already the second thread I'm posting this message, the first one being https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2018q1/004274.html
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 > Nate had proposed a dedicated  goal for Bugzilla back when the goals where voted and it got merged with  Onboarding as they overlapped. I thought it made sense to bring that  back and I reopened it as a sub-task of the Onboarding goal so we can properly track its progress:
 > https://phabricator.kde.org/T6832
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 > Can someone update this task with any outcome that came from this discussion? Was any change suggested here implemented? Is there anything else pending or that could be done to improve things?
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 > Cheers,
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 > Neofytos
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 > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
 > On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 08:58:51 CET Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
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 >  > What you need to focus on right now is not bikeshedding about statuses
 >  > etc., but to recruit more and more QA/triagers. The QA team is Martin's
 >  > "second level support". This is the primary solution.
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 >  Yeah, I guess this is all just bikeshedding. Adding a status would help me,
 >  but it wouldn't solve the largest problem. And I don't personally thing that
 >  s/UNCONFIRMED/NEW or vice versa would make any difference. If it makes people
 >  happy, why not...
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 >  > Two years ago we had essentially the same "should we add a TRIAGED
 >  > status" -discussion over at LibreOffice, initiated by myself. This was
 >  > almost purely thinking about QA workers, not developers - yes, we are
 >  > that independent. In the end we did not add the status. It is hard to
 >  > predict the effects of increasing complexity so we did not bother.
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 >  That's a good point, too.
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 >  Boudewijn Rempt | https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org
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