Re: Bugzilla read to go live?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/bug_status.html documents an UNCONFIRMED state that 
> > doesn't seem to be used (my bug went in as NEW, maybe because I
> > assigned it to myself and have canconfirm permissions?).
> 
> confirmation is tied up with voting for bugs in a weird way -
> if the product has a setting for 'votestoconfirm' than bugs
> are entered by default in the UNCONFIRMED state, if not
> they are entered in the NEW state.
> 
> A bug can be confirmed either because of::
> 
>  - voting
>  
>  - Or because someone with canconfirm permissions sets the status
>    as NEW either when submitting the bug or later.
> 
> So, if you set a product to have some number of votes to confirm,
> you'd reveal all the bugs I've introduced in the confirmation mechanism.

OK, I think I have these bugs fixed now, so if you want to have
your product have an UNCONFIRMED state, you can simply set its
vote to confirm != 0. (Completely obvious, right?) 

Regards,
                                        Owen