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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - journalctl boot reporting inconsistent"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66664#c13">Comment # 13</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - journalctl boot reporting inconsistent"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66664">bug 66664</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:zbyszek@in.waw.pl" title="Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>"> <span class="fn">Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=66664#c11">comment #11</a>)
<span class="quote">> FYI: Status of this bug had been NEEDINFO. Once I provided the requested
> info, I changed the status to ASSIGNED (since it seemed the most sensible of
> all available options). But now looking at the list of other open systemd
> bugs, I see that no others are in the ASSIGNED category, so it was probably
> a mistake for me to have changed it to that value. Apologies. Reverting it
> now to NEW, since that seems to be the most popular choice, even though I
> don't understand the semantics.</span >
We use ASSIGNED to signal that we're working on something, i.e. for
communication between developers to avoid duplicate work. So the bug should
stay NEW until somebody actually starts working on the solution.
<span class="quote">> Btw, clicking on the "help" link for the "Status" dropdown yields a page of
> essentially useless info, since it explains semantics only for tags
> CONFIRMED, UNCONFIRMED, and INPROGRESS, none of which are actually used on
> this site. Would be nice to have explanations for semantics of tags actually
> in use here, i.e. NEW, ASSIGNED, RESOLVED, and NEEDINFO.</span >
<a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - please remove description of unused statuses from help"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=66887">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66887</a></pre>
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