On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:21 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
That said, it's unfortunate that we're abusing NEW as UNCONFIRMED and ASSIGNED as NEW (and have a nonstandard ON_DEV state which is being abused as ASSIGNED). It would make much more sense to use the standard Bugzilla terminology. This is also an artefact of sharing the RHEL Bugzilla with its nonstandard workflow. We end up trying to give meanings to the states defined by RHEL rather than defining the states we actually need and keeping close to upstream Bugzilla terminology.
Yeah, we've been discussing that. It's a fairly big problem to try and get a hold of, though. I'd rather like a fix in which we can present one set of states and resolutions for Fedora bugs and another set for RHEL bugs, but I'm not sure if that's technically possible without excessive patching. I need to talk to the Bugzilla maintainer.
Couple of updates here: I've summarised this thread as it currently lies at rest for the next issue of FWN, so keep an eye out for that tomorrow. Also, on the above - I talked to David, and unfortunately for now it's not technically possible to show different statuses and resolutions for Fedora and RHEL bugs within the single Bugzilla instance. It is a feature that's previously been requested and one David is interested in, but Bugzilla itself doesn't yet have the infrastructure to make it possible. So we may have to wait a while on that one :(