Bug 66887

Summary:	please remove description of unused statuses from help
Product:	freedesktop.org	Reporter:	Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	fd.o Admin Massive <sitewranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2013-07-14 03:54:11 UTC

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status
(linked from the "help" link for the "Status" dropdown) yields a page of essentially useless info, since it explains semantics only for tags CONFIRMED, UNCONFIRMED, and INPROGRESS, none of which are actually used on this site. Would be nice to have explanations for semantics of tags actually in use here, i.e. NEW, ASSIGNED, RESOLVED, and NEEDINFO.

E.g.
NEW - bug has been reported but no resolution has been found yet.
ASSIGNED - a developer is working on fixing the bug.
NEEDINFO - additional information is required from the original reported or the person mentioned in the comment.
RESOLVED - bug has been closed, either fixed or found to be unfixable, to be not a bug, etc.

Comment 1 Tollef Fog Heen 2013-07-15 19:59:23 UTC

The help information comes from upstream bugzilla and is not something we really provide in any shape or form.  Unless somebody volunteers to fix this and maintain it forwards, we are unlikely to ever fix this, so closing this as not our bug.

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