Re: Does the bug tracker actually work?

[Paul Warren <pdw ex-parrot com>]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:39:20PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> writes: 
> > I think we also need to change our policy on reporting bugs like
> > most other projects do this.
> > 
> > There must be some way to automatically filter out all "it crashed"
> > and other crap and just let real bugs go into the bug tracker.  IMO
> > the new bug tracking system needs to be changed in a way where the
> > maintainer needs to approve all bug reports before they go into the
> > tracker.
> > 
> > At the moment the bug tracker is pretty much useless because of all
> > this crap in it.
> 
> Bugs go in to Bugzilla as NEW and you have to process them and mark
> them ASSIGNED to someone. You can query for NEW/ASSIGNED bugs.

It is possible to setup Bugzilla so that new bugs go in as "UNCONFIRMED"
and must be approved by a Quality Assurance person before they become
"NEW".  New accounts, do not have the ability to create new bugs until
someone with the appropriate power hits the check box for that account.

Paul