Re: FC3 Bug Status - 2004-09-23

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Leonard den Ottolander (leonard den ottolander nl) said: 
> > "need testing" percentage is part of the closed bugs.
> > So from the 43 closed bugs we have 9 which still need to be tested
> > to be sure the bugs are indeed fixed, that is 20.93% from the
> > 43 closed bugs.
> 
> So people practice closing bugs before their solution is actually
> verified to be correct? I thought bugs should only be closed after the
> fix was verified and pushed.
> 
> How are those "need testing" bugs tagged so they can be used in these
> stats?

"Needs Testing" are bugs in MODIFIED state. Fixed/Closed includes
CLOSED, RESOLVED, and MODIFIED.

RESOLVED->NOTABUG and RESOLVED->DUPLICATE are dropped out of the stats
entirely.

Bill