Comments on: Of Bugs and Statuses

By: solrize

solrize — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:39:31 +0000

I saw “triaged” all the time but never understood what it meant. What I’m looking for is a way of closing a bug without either rejecting it or fixing it. E.g. bug A is a genuine bug and discussion happens on its ticket. Similarly with bug B, which is different from bug A. I work on a fix that’s primarily for bug B but is actually a unified fix for both bugs. So I want to close bug A and refer viewers to bug B where discussion of the fix is taking place. I don’t want to mark A as duplicate since it’s really a different bug and “duplicate” removes it from search (but there’s still useful discussion there). I don’t want to mark it as “fix committed” because the fix is still in progress. The idea is to merge two complex bugs and “duplicate” refers to a simpler situation where the same bug has gotten reported more than once.

By: Ralph Corderoy

Ralph Corderoy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:31:01 +0000

Could you please clarify who can set a bug to Confirmed? The description says “QA are meant to mark the bug confirmed only when they have enough information to reproduce the bug or trivially establish that it is in fact something that a developer needs to look at.” but later it says “community-confirmed bugs” suggesting non-QA can confirm a bug.

And given the definition of Confirmed is “Oh-Oh He’s Right It’s Broken”, can a bug be set to that from the off because it’s all too clear it’s a bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208837 is an example if you need a case in point.

By: kiko

kiko — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:04:46 +0000

It depends on what you mean by “a bug is closed”. If you mean the fix for the bug has been committed to revision control, use Fix Committed. If you mean that the fix for the bug is available to end-users, use Fix Released.

I guess that’s ambiguous if you release to your end-users using revision control only, but which crazy project actually does that?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:16:17 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article gs and Statuses at Launchpad blog, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

By: Michal

Michal — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:10:59 +0000

Once a bug is closed, what status do you use? Does Fix Released mean closed?

By: santosh

santosh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:15:08 +0000

actually I wanted the clear life cycle of the bug in simple form.

By: b-initials

b-initials — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:40:24 +0000

Bug statuses in Launchpad….

I have been following the discussions on ubuntu-devel, -devel-discuss and -launchpad-users mailing lists regarding the status of Ubuntu bugs. There are many different discussion threads, some of them cross-posted, so it is a little difficult to give al…