Re: Bug status

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/6/10 Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden>:

> Valentin,
>
> I may be wrong (after all, you're the bugmeister), but I think you are using 
> status codes differently than they have been used in the past.
>

You're welcome to ask, I'm (still) kind of new at this.

Graham, can you confirm the following?

> It appears that you use "Verified" when a bug is fixed.  In the past, I 
> believe that "Verified" means that the bug report has been found to actually 
> be a bug, and that "Fixed" is used when the bug is no longer occuring.

It may be the orthodox way. I use to mark issues as "Accepted" when
I've been able to reproduce the bug. "Verified", currently, means  I
have checked that the bug is fixed (or made invalid for any reason),
and that I probably won't have to look at it again.

> This is almost a complete reversal of the meaning of "Verified", from "It 
> really is a bug, and I've demonstrated it" to "The bug has gone away".

Yes, this has already appeared to me at some point, but IIRC this is
more or less what I was told.

> I'm not part of the bug team, so I have only minimal input to this issue, but 
> I think it's a potential source of confusion for those who use the bug 
> tracker.

Could be -- but a very minor confusion then, since you're the first
one to notice :-)

Graham, we need your lights here...

Cheers,
Valentin