Proposal: bugzilla component for pre-review package development

[Jon Stanley]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:

> Unfortunately when this happens, the "not ready for review" ticket
> shows up in the review queue, extremely scarce reviewer time is
> wasted on tickets that aren't reviewable, and the already huge queue
> gets even bigger.  One way to deal with this is to just give these
> tickets their own bugzilla component.  I'm not really sure what to
> call it, though.  Maybe "Package Development", but that sounds a bit
> broad.  Whatever the component is called, though, it would give these
> tickets a place to go that doesn't complicate the package review
> process.

Maybe a trac instance on hosted? Or maybe a special status whiteboard
that says "don't do anything with these" would be better than
littering bugzilla with yet more irrelevant data :).