Bugs with status 'In Progress' without assignee

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sat, 24 May 2008 14:03:55 +0200 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
>The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>that has been posted to gmane.linux.ubuntu.bugsquad as well.
>
>
>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?
>
The one I can think of is if the person doing the work (an upstream 
perhaps) does not have a launchpad account.

Scott K