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[Daniel Letzeisen <dtl131@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think you should respect the wishes of the developer that handles that 
particular package. Furthermore, I think you should respect the opinion 
of other triagers. *Cough* *Cough* 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1295763

Your enthusiasm is great, but make sure you use it in appropriate ways...

On 03/24/2014 11:01 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> El 24/03/14 14:47, Marc Deslauriers escribió:
> > On 14-03-24 09:37 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> > > El 24/03/14 13:31, Marc Deslauriers escribió:
> > > > Could you please stop changing statuses of bugs you don't intend on 
> > > > fixing yourself?
> > > >
> > > > Marking a bug as "triaged" and changing priorities on them makes 
> > > > absolutely no
> > > > sense if you aren't tasked to fix them.
> > > >
> > > > Changing one of my team's bugs to "triaged" means our scripts and 
> > > > procedures no
> > > > longer consider the bug to be new, hence, nobody will look at it 
> > > > anymore. It is
> > > > breaking our workflow.
> > > As said in the bug statuses 
> > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Bug%20statuses> page,
> > > which arbitrates the hole bug management work-flow in Launchpad, 
> > > "triaged" means
> > > "a member of UbuntuBugControl 
> > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugControl>
> > > believes that the report describes a genuine bug in enough detail 
> > > that a
> > > developer could start working on a fix."
> > >
> > > Moreover, according to lean management
> > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_management>:
> > >
> > >    * The first source of flaws (or any waste) is them to remain 
> > > invisible (or
> > >      untriaged or with unset priority in the case of bug management).
> > >    * Unpredictable work-flow has to be done manually till, after 
> > > some continuous
> > >      improvement and waste reduction, it becomes regular.
> > >
> > > So, since your work-flow conflicts with Launchpad's one and with 
> > > principal
> > > productivity recommendations, I'm sorry I'm not taking on your 
> > > request; except
> > > if I'm missing something.
> > (...)
> > Modifying in an arbitrary way bug statuses and priorities that teams 
> > depend on
> > to track work is simply a bad idea.
> > (...)
> What do you think; Quality, BugSquad and BugControl; about this topic?
>
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