[Zope-Coders] July Bug Day Roundup

[Chris Withers]

(bringing this back to zope-coders where it belongs..)

Ken Manheimer wrote:
> Then why were you asking for feedback in the first place?

Well, naturally, I expected everyone to agree with me ;-)

> A few supporters (chris, andreas, and dieter, at least) have indicated 

I didn't read Andreas's comments as disagreeing, Chris seems to be on 
the samish wavelength, Dieter's comment is worthless without elaboration...

> that they had different interpretations than you did, more similar to what 
> i am suggesting.  So at the least, the waters were already at least this 
> muddy.  The question, then, is how to settle on one set of states.

Yeah, agreed :-)

>   - Lennert has proposed a "Submitted" state (which i interpret as being 
>     for issues that are pending disposition), instead of pending
>     (i think "Submitted" is an improvement on "Pending")

I think Sidnei's reminder of Roundup's "Unread" state is better yet.

>   - and "Pending" would be for items awaiting more info (i think that 
>     should instead be either "Accepted", if someone is taking 
>     responsibility, if only to "Reject" the thing if no more info is 
>     forthcoming, else "Deferred" if nobody is taking responsibility - it 
>     can go back to "Submitted" if more info comes...

I actually like Pending here. For me, it's Pending something, 
acceptance, rejection, who knows? we need more info ;-)
I notice to attach a lot of importance to having someone assigned and 
accountable. Is this a reality in an open source development environment?

>   - sidnei mentioned that roundup calls the initial state "unread" (but i 
>     don't think that really applies to our initial state, because things 
>     may be read but not assigned any handling - and i don't think we need 
>     a state for truly "unread")

Hmm... I see you point, can't say why, but Unread still feels "right"er 
for me :-S

> I guess i think we could make progress talking each state through.

Sure, lets start from the top. What state does stuff go into when it's 
first plonked into the collector?

Chris

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