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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:25:43 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.
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>> I'm more concerned about the inevitable explosion of duplicates
>> and "fixed already"'s.
> 
> mozilla handles it this way: the bug starts as unconfirmed. they have a 
> volunteer group of pre screeners. Only when one of these people sets
> it to valid or similar then the owners of the module get mail.

Ours is set up the same way, it's just called "OPEN" state instead
of "UNCONFIRMED".
 
> I guess that could work for the linux kernel bugzilla too. Never hazzle
> a developer, until someone confirmed the bug in some way (this does not
> mean that he needs to reproduce it, just weed out obvious duplicates
> and bogus postings) 

Easy enough to do, we just need to change the default owners if 
people get overloaded.

M.

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