Re: [gentoo-dev] Does anyone use the VERIFIED status in bugzilla?

[Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On 05/14/2010 09:34 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> I'd like to see the whole thing go away. It's this one user I've pretty
> much ever seen using it. And he's using it to change "RESOLVED" status
> to "VERIFIED" on e.g. removal bugs, stabilization bugs, keywording bugs...

I think that VERIFIED could have a place in a serious quality management 
system that closes the loop on every change.  If we had a test branch 
and a release branch the VERIFIED might be the glue that moves patches 
from one to the other.

However, we don't have anything like this in place right now, and so 
this is really just spam.  Having the extra state does no good without 
all the processes that go with it.

Would Gentoo have a higher level of quality if we did some CMM-5 
practices like these?  Absolutely!  Would it struggle to keep up with 
Debian Stable?  Absolutely!   I don't think we really have the resources 
to pull off something like this.  As it is we struggle with the current 
~arch/arch system.

I'd get rid of it...