Re: Suggestion for a new GNATS policy

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>]

> 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?
This is nice.  A date-only field stating "Reconfirmed with snapshot of 
this date" is probably the correct way to indicate status (on mainline, 
anyway) for bug triage purposes.  Didn't know it was easy to add new 
fields. :-)

Doesn't deal with the other thing I'd really like to clean up, which is 
the 'which branches' issue, but it's a somewhat separate issue.

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

Well, make it optionally visible to anyone who wants to look; you never 
know who will become a triager.  :-)

The classic search is for bugs with various other characteristics *plus* 
'reconfirmed before date Y (or never reconfirmed and originally 
confirmed before date Y)'.  This is the option which needs to be easy on 
the search screen.

Thanks for your hard work, Daniel...

--Nathanael