Launchpad bug workflow change

[Matthew East]

Hi,

Thanks Henrik for this clear explanation - I'm forwarding it to
launchpad-users so that other projects can have this explanation
relatively promptly too.

Launchpad team - it would be cool to have announcements of large changes
like this in advance so that other projects can plan around them /
incorporate them into their workflow. Any plans for that?

Congratulations on the new statuses, which seem to me really helpful
(except for todo, which I'm not sure about - it seems to overlap with
Confirmed and In Progress).

* Henrik Nilsen Omma:
> Tomorrow (2007-06-20) the Launchpad team will update the bug tracker 
> with a new set of bug states to help projects like Ubuntu improve bug 
> management. The changes will allow for greater fine tuning of our bug 
> management and the new labels should hopefully also make more sense to 
> users.
> 
> The following statuses will be added:
> 
>  * Triaged
>  * Won't Fix
>  * Todo
> 
> The following statuses will be renamed:
> 
>  * Unconfirmed -> New
>  * Needs Info -> Incomplete
>  * Rejected -> Invalid
> 
> 
> The reasons for the new states are roughly:
> 
>  * Triaged will mean that a bug has all the information attached to it 
> that a developer needs to fix it. The 'confirmed' state was previously 
> used for this purpose, but many users were 'confirming' bugs when 
> observed by a second person.
> 
>  * Rejected has been split into Invalid and Won't Fix, where the latter 
> may be a valid bug or wish-list change that we don't have the wish or 
> resources to fix.
> 
>  * Todo will form the list of bugs that developers expect to work on in 
> the near future. These would typically also be assigned to a developer 
> or a dev team.
> 
> The renaming of some existing states is intended to make them more 
> intuitive to a larger audience.
> 
> Search URLs containing the old status names will be permanently 
> redirected to equivalent URLs containing the new status names. For 
> example, &status=Unconfirmed will be changed to &status=New.
> 
> Henrik
> 
> 

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