249417 - FAQ: Help fix bugs, check for bugs link lists only bugs re-assigned to Nobody.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Website, defect)

Description

[gekacheka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

The FAQ "How can I help fix bugs?"  currently says
"1. Check the list of _unassigned bugs_ that are in Bugzilla."
But the link given only lists bugs assigned to Nobody.

As I understand:  

Newly created bugs are by default 'Assigned-to' Mostafah as owner of the
calendar project, but their status is 'New' rather than 'Assigned', meaning that
Mostafah has not accepted the bug.  Bugs are re-assigned to Nobody when (a) a
bug was accepted by somebody, setting its 'Assigned-to' to that somebody and its
status to 'Assigned', but then (b) that somebody can no longer work on the bug,
so they re-assign it to Nobody, and its status becomes 'New'.  

(is this correct?)

Therefore, listing only Nobody bugs is an incomplete list of bugs available for
work.  A list of bugs with status 'New' would be more appropriate than the list
of Nobody bugs.

A better or additional link may be the calendar bugs.html page.  It gives
several links for listing calendar bugs, and also explains how to help triage bugs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

(In reply to comment #0)
> As I understand:  
> 
> Newly created bugs are by default 'Assigned-to' Mostafah as owner of the
> calendar project, but their status is 'New' rather than 'Assigned', meaning that
> Mostafah has not accepted the bug.  Bugs are re-assigned to Nobody when (a) a
> bug was accepted by somebody, setting its 'Assigned-to' to that somebody and its
> status to 'Assigned', but then (b) that somebody can no longer work on the bug,
> so they re-assign it to Nobody, and its status becomes 'New'.  
> 
> (is this correct?)

This is correct and the link is definitely not correct

Comment 2

[gekacheka]

Attachment: faq.html patch: link to bugs.html, clarify which steps use bugzilla

1. change link to point to bugs.html, where it also explains bugzilla a little
2. add "not required" (contributors might not have bugzilla authority to change
assignment, but that should not stop them)
3. clarified which steps occur using Bugzilla.

Comment 3

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Checked in. Thanks

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Website. Be afraid for your sanity!