295936 - Add a NOTMOZ resolution to replace part of what INVALID is currently (somewhat incorrectly) used for. Followup to 295935.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Tristor]

As I mentioned on bug 295935, were that change to be implemented, it would mean
that there would need to be a new resolution created for when a bug was not an
issue with a Mozilla product, but /was/ a bug somewhere, and a workaround was
not deemed to be needed.  I am suggesting that in the spirit of multiple other
bug trackers, such as the GNOME and Ubuntu trackers, that we have a NOTMOZ
resolution for things that need to be filed elsewhere.  In example, if a bug is
filed that is present because of a bug in the Sun JRE, and someone files a bug
here about it, it needs to be brought to the attention of Sun, but isn't a
Mozilla bug, this would then be the correct resolution for it.

CCing Asa, same reason as before.  Depends on 295935.

Comment 1

[Tristor]

Gavin pointed out to me the silliness of having [RFE] in the summary, removed.

Comment 2

[Shawn Christopher]

I concur

Bugs that deal with different distros which then backport patches should not be
held in the responsibility of the community/devs to hunt down and then find out
that they belong to a managed release.

If a NOTMOZ resolution was added then anyone in theory that knew the bug being
filed was with a particular managed release could kill the bug and freeing more
time for development.

Comment 3

[Tristor]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I concur
> 
> Bugs that deal with different distros which then backport patches should not be
> held in the responsibility of the community/devs to hunt down and then find out
> that they belong to a managed release.
> 
> If a NOTMOZ resolution was added then anyone in theory that knew the bug being
> filed was with a particular managed release could kill the bug and freeing more
> time for development.


That wasn't exactly what I was thinking of, but nonetheless another example of
what this could be used for.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Just so it's clear, there's no *technical* reason we can't do this, because
Bugzilla makes it easy to change these now.  However, there could be procedural
reasons, etc, and it's up to the QA people to decide if they want this or not.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

- This bug is assigned to Asa since 2005
- The default assignee for the current Product/Component is Marcia
- But wouldn't an assignment to "nobody" better represent the status of this particular bug?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Yes. If we ever fix this bug, or something like it, it will be in the context of a review and discussion regarding what resolutions are appropriate for mozilla.org in 2010. 

Gerv

Comment 7

[:glob ✱]

while this resolution may help clarify the true state of some bugs, we're putting a freeze on the current statuses and resolutions, due to the impact changing these will have on systems which integrate with bmo (such as dashboards).