Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

On 8/15/12 1:57 PM, Andrew Brager wrote:
> Thanks for your comments.  What still remains unclear to me (not that it
> matters as I have no influence/authority on anything done by anyone  -
> I'm simply trying to help you all sort it out so somebody in a position
> to do something can then do it) is whether the bug status was changed in
> that 5 month period between when you re-confirmed the bug, and when it
> was closed.
>
> In other words, did it get changed from NEEDINFO to NEW when you
> reconfirmed the bug, as was implied should have happened?  Or did it go
> from NEEDINFO to CLOSED with no intervening status?  If the latter, then
> in my opinion there's a bug in bugzilla as (I would think) it should
> have changed when you reconfirmed the bug.  If the former, then there's
> a problem with the process, not the tool.  The answers to those
> questions will answer the question "which one needs fixing?"  If the
> process needs fixing, then in my opinion there needs to be additional
> status flags and additional feedback from the developers as I previously
> wrote.
>
> Based on Florien's post, it sounds like he only closed those that were
> in the NEEDINFO state, which implies there's a bug in bugzilla as I
> state above.

I think there is another possibility, and that is that the bug lifecycle
is dubious. See, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/docs/en/html/lifecycle.html

With respect to LO bugs,  it is still unclear what the various stages of
the bug lifecycle is, and who is empowered to make various changes to
the bug status. As an unempowered user I cannot "confirm" a bug.
Moreover, there is no context help available regarding status hierarchy.

What I think I am seeing, as in so many such projects,  is a disconnect
between what devs think is happening and what bug reporters think is
happening.....

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