Re: [Bugzilla] Missing options to go from WAITING to UNCONFIRMED?

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 1:03 AM, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

> Dan Berlin said:
> > In the confirmed state (Ie the bug was confirmed prior to being in
> > WAITING), you run into the same problems you would trying to 
> > transition
> > from NEW to UNCONFIRMED. It's not as simple as changing the status, 
> > and
> > doesn't make sense anyway.
>
> Unfortunately, it *does* make sense.  We've had "misconfirmed" bugs
> before, which weren't really confirmed (although someone thought they's
> confirmed it, they messed up).  I've being meaning to ask for a
> NEW->UNCONFIRMED option for a while now, although it shouldn't be used
> very often.

I view it as a social problem, more than anything else.
Don't go confirming bugs that shouldn't be confirmed. :)
When in doubt, don't confirm.
That said, allowing NEW->UNCONFIRMED would mess up a *whole* bunch of 
things.
There are things that look at the bug activity (history) to see if a 
bug has been in a confirmed state or not, in addition to the 
everconfirmed flag.
I'd have to literally rewrite the bug activity history in order to 
change NEW->UNCONFIRMED.
This is a very bad thing.