Re: Suggestion for a new GNATS policy

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 06:59  AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:16:06AM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > > We confirm each bug many times, and every time we bump the date 
> > > field.
> > > How
> > > are we supposed to do this in Bugzilla?
> >
> >
> > That's the easy (for me) way:
> > You can unset-reset the flag.
>
> How am I supposed to store the fact that I reconfirmed a bug with a
> two day old cvs-Snapshot? Also unsetting and resetting a flag
> to achieve this is just plain ugly. This information is just 
> fundamentally
> NOT a flag. Actually it is not even a timestamp of some bugzilla 
> action,
> it is the date of a CVS-Snapshot.

BTW, this is not what i was told at the beginning.
I was told it was simply a timestamp of when the bug was last 
confirmed, not the date of the version it was CVS snapshot it was last 
confirmed with.
These are two very different things.  In fact, it's not even a 
timestamp in the second case, it's a date-only field (IE no 
hour:minute:secs)
Can someone please clarify which is correct?

If it's the second, you'll need a new field, i'll add one and make it 
visible only to bug triagers.

You still do *not* need a new field for representing things like "this 
bug has a minimized testcase", however.


--Dan