On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:43 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
If it is useful to indicate whether or not a bug has been reproduced, there could be three states: NEW, TRIAGED, and CONFIRMED. It could work in a one-dimensional fashion (no keywords) if CONFIRMED implies TRIAGED. It seems like if someone is going to all the work of confirming a bug *and* they have permission to change the bug's state, they might as well triage it as well.
I don't think we can assume that. If, say, I'd seen an issue reported twice but not yet with sufficient info, I might set it to CONFIRMED, but it's not yet been triaged.
This additional state only becomes useful if there are people actively looking in Bugzilla trying to reproduce bugs that have already been triaged. Is that actually the case? Or are there so many untriaged bugs that no one really cares whether the "extra credit" work of reproduction has been done on all of the triaged bugs for a specific component?
It's not necessarily about 'trying to reproduce', there are many cases where we know multiple people are experiencing a bug just from duplicate reports or follow-up comments.