Bug tracking and assigned to

[Don]

On 21.01.2012 05:42, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 1/20/2012 8:33 PM, Kapps wrote:
>> On 20/01/2012 5:26 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> To be more general than paying attention to Nick's specific issues.. paying attention to the various attributes that are
>>> available:  priority, severity, and vote count.  Each of those is easy to search on and sort by.
>>>
>>> I fully agree with the difficulty of seeing who's working on what when no one bothers to assign bugs to themselves.
>>
>> I'm guessing it's not possible to make it so that when a pull request is received that fixes a bug (in the way that the
>> newly integrated approach works for commits) it automatically assigns the issue to the user?
>
> With sufficient time and energy, it's all possible.  There's sufficient hooks to write the software.  But waiting for
> the pull request to mark the bug as assigned is too late, imho.  I don't see it as at all unreasonable to ask people
> that decide to work on a bug to assign it to themselves.  It only takes a couple button clicks and they'll already have
> the bug open.

It's not true of me -- I'm nearly always off-line while I'm working on 
bugs. That might not be true of anyone else, though, and since at the 
moment all CTFE are implicitly assigned to me, it's not really a problem 
right now.
Anyway, if we want to make ASSIGNED meaningful, a mandatory first step 
would be change all bugs below number 1000 back to NEW.