Launchpad bug statuses

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Forest Bond wrote:
> ...
> Launchpad sure does give you enough rope to ... choose an alternative 
> workflow. Is there nothing that can be done to make the correct 
> workflow more obvious?
> ...

One way would be to explain the statuses more inside Launchpad itself. 
For example, Kit Blake's idea of giving each status a tooltip in the 
menu.

Another way would be to simplify the statuses. For example, we could 
merge Confirmed and Triaged, if there is no useful distinction between 
them. We could merge Won't Fix and Invalid, if there is no useful 
distinction between them. We could merge Fix Committed and Fix 
Released, if there is no useful distinction between them.

(By "useful distinction" I don't mean "status X means this, and status 
Y means that". I mean a solid reason that people would often want a 
search to include bugs in status X but not bugs in status Y, or vice 
versa.)

These approaches are not mutually exclusive. :-)

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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