Bugs with status 'In Progress' without assignee

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 02:03:55PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status, bugs with status 'In
> Progress' "should" have an assignee. According to
> http://tinyurl.com/5mvws2 there are currently about ~200 of such bugs.
> 
> I clearly don't see the point in having such bugs. Could you please give
> me a valid use case for this?

I've been known to do this on occasion when the bug has been fixed
upstream but doesn't have a linkable upstream bug. I suppose
fix-committed would do as well, or I could use the Launchpad feature to
create an upstream task without a linked bug report.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]