[Koha-devel] Proposal to change Bugzilla Status and Patch Status values

[Ian Walls]

Fellow Koha-ckers,


A comment on bug 7167 (
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7167) has gotten
my interest re-awakened about a proposed Bugzilla revision that had been
floated earlier this release cycle.

I'd like to remove Patch Status, and move all those values to the regular
Status field.  This has the following advantages:

   - Status is a built-in field, so it's got much richer support in
   Bugzilla.  For example, status workflows can be added.  Patch Status is a
   custom field, and is just a list of values
   - We would no longer lose the Priority value of a bug by having to set
   it to Patch Sent in order to get the Patch Status values visible
   - Statuses can be updated as part of submitting an attachment like a
   patch, streamlining the patch submission process (fewer clicks to keep all
   the fields up to date).

I'd also like to add a new status, "In Discussion", for bug reports that
have deeper procedural, philsophical or technical implications outside that
of mere coding (bug 7167 being an example).

We're not using Status for anything else, so there is no trade-off there.
This is really how the Status field is meant to be used.  We will, however,
have to rebuild the canned searches that look for patches that Need
Signoff, are Signed Off, and are Passed QA/Failed QA.

The other difficulty of this proposal is that we'll need to turn off
automatic bug emails for a bit while we make the bulk changes to the Patch
Statuses; otherwise, we'll all get spammed to high heaven with meaningless
updates when the migration occurs.

What do people think?  Does this sound like a reasonable change to make?
Any objections?

Cheers,


-Ian


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