Mainline in regression-fix mode after Thanksgiving

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Joe Buck wrote:
> I'd prefer for assignment to mean that the assigned person has agreed to
> look at the bug.  With your change, we lose the ability to make the
> distinction: when I see a name in the assignment field, under your system
> that would give me no information about whether anyone is looking at it.

What I have seen in a large development environment is a slight
variation of our current Bugzilla workflow:

  After a bug is assigned to someone, it remains in state NEW, and
  it's up to the developer (or her manager) to ACCEPT that assignment.

We wouldn't need new fields nor state in GCC Bugzilla, just slightly 
adjust the workflow.

Gerald