Launchpad bug statuses

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday 04 October 2007 01:00, Emmet Hikory wrote:

>    ... The parallel case of rejecting bugs
> for which nothing is happening is already established as a manual
> workflow (at least for Ubuntu), and so does not become worse through
> automation (regardless of any perceived benefits or detriments to
> users, reporters, triagers, contributors, developers, etc.).

I pretty strongly disagree with this.

Different teams and projects have different standards for how long is long 
enough.  In Ubuntu Backports we don't (until LP took away the choice) close 
bugs that have been incomplete as they are usually incomplete due to lack of 
sufficient testing.  This testing, depending on the package in question, may 
take quite some time.

My perception is that LP developers have a "right" way to use LP in mind and 
do not appear to be very open to alternate visions.  As an Ubuntu developer, 
LP is a tool to work on Ubuntu and so the end state of the distro at release 
and through updates is what matters, not the purity of the bug database.

Scott K