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Re: [Bugzilla] Missing option to go from WAITING to UNCONFIRMED?
- From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, dberlin at dberlin dot org
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:07:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Bugzilla] Missing option to go from WAITING to UNCONFIRMED?
Dan Berlin thought:
> In the unconfirmed state (ie the bug was never confirmed prior to
>being in WAITING), there is no need for a transition because it's *already*
>unconfirmed. Thus, the only reasonable transition is to NEW or
>RESOLVED/<something like INVALID>.
One use case for a WAITING->UNCONFIRMED transition is this, I think:
the feedback was received but we're still trying to decide whether it's
really a bug or not. This can take a while in some of the C++ cases. :-) I
suppose we can just leave the bugs in NEW state then, but it's not as
informative.
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
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