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

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Sun Feb 22 19:46:53 GMT 2009


On Saturday 21 February 2009 12:40:08 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> 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.)
>

RESOLVED -> REMIND is the other way I've seen people handle those types of 
reports. See my other mail for another option

>
> Cheers
> Lydia

--
Matt




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