Re: BugTracker (Was: Re: 8.2 features status)

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 06:48:54PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> This, however, I would find very useful - both as a -hacker and as a
> user. The point is that only confirmed things should be in there, so
> only confirmed things should be returned on searches and whatevr.
> (private not as in not visible to the public, but private as in
> write-controlled)

I've yet to see a bug tracker that doesn't make it trivial to identify
bugs that were marked as invalid (ie: not a real bug). The only
difference is that you actually have to mark them as such. Given the
fairly low volume of non-bugs that come in through the web form, I don't
think marking them will be a big issue (and as I mentioned previously,
it's something that doesn't have to be done by anyone who's a
committer). In fact, having such a system would probably save committers
time, because they could look only at bugs that had been confirmed as
valid by someone else. Right now, every time a non-bug gets filed dozens
of people end up reading the report before they hit delete.
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