Feedback wanted: Change INVALID resolution to NOTABUG in bugs.kde.org

Lydia Pintscher lydia at kde.org
Sat Feb 21 18:40:08 GMT 2009


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:49, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since we're using INVALID mostly to indicate something is not a bug in KDE
> itself, I'd like to change the INVALID resolution to NOTABUG to better indicate
> this. We also have other resolutions such as UPSTREAM and DOWNSTREAM which
> means INVALID isn't really used for those either.
>
> The creation of duplicate repports (i.e. one right after the other) should be
> gone. Bugzilla added code upstream to prevent that from happening and I've
> used the same code in the wizard.
>
> If there are no objections, I'll make the change early Monday morning.


At Amarok we mostly use INVALID to close crash reports without debug
symbols. We kindly ask the reporter to install them/recompile and
reopen the report when they have a useful backtrace. What would we do
with those bugs? (Leaving them open is not an option.)


Cheers
Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher
Amarok community manager
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