>>>>> On Sat, 03 Dec 2022, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Some people found that not satisfactory, so NEW and ASSIGNED were
> replaced by CONFIRMED and IN_PROGRESS. (We also had status REOPENED
> which was removed with the same change.) Unfortunately, I cannot find
> the old discussion, but [1] suggests that the change took place in 2011
> or before.

In 2011, actually. Discussion is here:
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/a22baae8830ca806684da98ce7698206

"Right now, it seems logical to use UNCONFIRMED for the new bugs and let
devs (re-)confirm them as necessary.
I think it might be even a good idea to limit the possibility of setting
'CONFIRMED' to devs. Otherwise, I see users bumping each of their bugs
to 'CONFIRMED' immediately."
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/33e6f39fbfafe95c18c563b12c61d9f0

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