On 05/14/2010 09:34 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
I'd like to see the whole thing go away. It's this one user I've pretty much ever seen using it. And he's using it to change "RESOLVED" status to "VERIFIED" on e.g. removal bugs, stabilization bugs, keywording bugs...
I think that VERIFIED could have a place in a serious quality management system that closes the loop on every change. If we had a test branch and a release branch the VERIFIED might be the glue that moves patches from one to the other.
However, we don't have anything like this in place right now, and so this is really just spam. Having the extra state does no good without all the processes that go with it.
Would Gentoo have a higher level of quality if we did some CMM-5 practices like these? Absolutely! Would it struggle to keep up with Debian Stable? Absolutely! I don't think we really have the resources to pull off something like this. As it is we struggle with the current ~arch/arch system.
I'd get rid of it...
