Suggestion for a new GNATS policy

[Daniel Berlin]

On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 04:55  PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2003, Volker Reichelt wrote:
>
>> There has been some effort over the last year to clean up GCC's bug 
>> database.
>> One problem is that many bug reports have to be revisited several 
>> times
>> (which is just a waste of resources), because of two problems:
>
> I suggest working out what changes to the GCC Bugzilla configuration 
> would
> be helpful in this regard, so that they can be made before the 
> transition,
> especially if they might affect the conversion program (converting the
> described notations used in GNATS into an appropriate form for 
> Bugzilla).
>
> I believe (but <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> presently gives an error
> message) that "open" is converted to UNCONFIRMED and "analyzed" to NEW 
> or
> ASSIGNED.  Usefully different types of confirmed bugs could get 
> different
> states in Bugzilla if that is useful.
>
> Date on which a bug was last verified could be a new Bugzilla field.

You can already determine when a bug was last modified.

--Dan