Comment 10 for bug 655385

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 655385] Re: Allow bug status change from Triaged only for bug supervisor

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Andrea Corbellini
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> In bug #659947 I've proposed to drop the Triaged status, and instead
> keep Confirmed, adding a checkbox "This bug has been checked by a bug
> supervisor". This solution would make it clear what the status of a bug
> is (for reporters and lurkers) and whether a developer can start working
> on it (for developers).
>
> I think this solution will solve this bug too, because users will no
> longer confuse Confirmed with Triaged and so won't need to change
> between this two statuses.

A problem with that solution is that it the separation between bug
supervisor and developer is pretty much entirely artificial - I'm not
aware of any project (other than Ubuntu) using it at all - and AFAICT
most ubuntu devs don't particularly care about the confirmed/triaged
distinction anyhow...