Re: Bugzilla read to go live?

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:

> Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:50:48PM -0800 or thereabouts, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > Since I'm not the maintainer of a package, I can't say how much they'd
> > > hate this, but as a bug reporter, it's certainly nice to see that
> > > somebody has at least looked at my bugs.  
> > 
> > Yeah. I use the query facility to hunt for all bugs that I reported,
> > and seeing things still "new" rather than even "assigned" is a pain
> > at times.
> 
> It's much more annoying if someone ASSIGNs a bug to himself without actually
> fixing it. As long as the bug is NEW, others may have the chance to fix it,
> but when you ASSIGN it, this "blocks" it for others.
> 

No it doesn't. It's easy to later reassign a bug to yourself. For
Nautilus, we try to never leave bugs NEW, but we take bugs from each
other all the time, either by looking at the inclination, or asking
the current assignee, or putting a comment in the bug report
expressing intent to take the bug and waiting a few days.

ASSIGN just means you have looked at this bug and are taking
responsibility for it, not necessarily that you are working on it
right now.

 - Maciej