[Libreoffice-qa] Unable to set ux-advise bugs to NEW in new bugzilla

[Joel Madero]

On 01/31/2015 10:33 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As ux-advise bugs are not supposed to be affecting the QA bug count, the
>> new bugzilla doesnt permit me to change its status when creating a bug
>> report.
> Hi Jay,
>
> I did some tweaking of the config in Bugzilla 4.4.6 to make sure that
> bugs would default to UNCONFIRMED when filed, and the simplest method
> was to make UNCONFIRMED the only choice for a newly-created bug. You
> can always create the bug, then change status to NEW afterwards. Or do
> a bulk-change, if you're filing a bunch of reports at once.
>
> From my understanding, the difference I saw on the backend is related
> to changing bug workflows that have been introduced to Bugzilla in
> modern versions. We can try to bring back the ability to set bugs to
> NEW during filing, but I think it's worth our time to also take a look
> at the suggested workflow in Bugzilla, and see if we might wish to
> adopt it.
So - just my two cents here. I'm not a big fan of changing our workflow
- ours works, mostly everyone is happy, devs seem to get it, QA gets it,
documentation explains it, etc... etc... it's kind of like "why reinvent
what already works."

Best,
Joel