[Headsup]: Bugzilla Upgrade Scheduled for 20070111

[Jin, Gordon]

Benjamin Close wrote on Monday, January 14, 2008 2:08 PM:
> Jin, Gordon wrote:
>> Benjamin Close wrote on Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:33 PM:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>>     Just a warning that I'll be upgrading bugzilla to 3.0.2 on 11th
>>> of Jan 2008 AEST. 
>>> 
>>> Among the features BZ 3 brings is email correspondence for bugs,
>>> faster response time, utf8 bug reports and most importantly,
>>> attachments at the time of bug filing.
>>> The upgrade will take about an hour and during this time bugzilla
>>> will be unavailable. 
>>> 
>> 
>> Benjamin, thanks for doing this.
>> 
>> I'm seeing NEEDINFO status has been removed from bugzilla 3.0.x.
>> NEEDINFO was useful to indicate lacking of info so the developer
>> kicks the ball to the reporter. I know changing assignee can achieve
>> similar goal, but IMHO changing assignee is not so convenient
>> operation as changing a field or flag. Can we have a flag for
>> NEEDINFO in the new bugzilla? 
>> 
>> Regards
>> Gordon
>> 
> It's on my TODO list to work out how to put this back, just haven't
> had the time to do so yet.

Benjamin, can we have a decision on what it will go for?

Some existing proposals:
a. add NEEDINFO back as "resolution" field.
b. use NEEDINFO as flag
c. use NEEDINFO as keyword
d. use NEEDINFO as "whiteboard status" field (suggested by Jojo, though
I don't know what's this)
e. do nothing. 

-Gordon