<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Khaled Hosny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:khaledhosny@eglug.org" target="_blank">khaledhosny@eglug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 08:27:43AM +0100, ale rimoldi wrote:<br>
> hi khaled<br>
><br>
> > Not being familiar what Mantis, I’m not sure what acknowledged status<br>
> > really means. I’m asking because after working on an acknowledged<br>
> > feature request, people are now debating whether the issue makes sense<br>
> > at all or not. I’d have thought that this is not questionable given<br>
> > the status of the issue, but I may have misunderstood how this works.<br>
><br>
> since you're not mentioning the specific bug it's not easy to give you<br>
> an exact explanation for what you are seing.<br>
<br>
</span>The immediate issue that triggered my question is #6230, but I’m also<br>
interested in a general answer as understanding how the bug triaging<br>
works in Scribus is crucial to outside contributors in general.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Khaled</blockquote><br>This brings up some issues that still need clarifying:<br><br>Here is what MantisBT defines each and every status:<br><a href="https://www.mantisbt.org/manual/admin.lifecycle.status.html">https://www.mantisbt.org/manual/admin.lifecycle.status.html</a><br><br>In the Scribus wiki there is a page that talks about how it uses the above labeling system:<br><a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_file_a_bug_report#Ticket_Status">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_file_a_bug_report#Ticket_Status</a> <br><br>What we are missing clarity about are the following scenarios, when a ticket:<br>1) requires more feedback from OP<br>2) requires more feedback from a core dev<br>3) needs more feedback from the community <br>4) is patched and awaiting testing (we have a 'Patch' field that is 'Yes/No' but it's not visible so well in the main Mantis screen, ideally we could color code it)<br>5) s a Feature Request that is not likely to be added<br>6) is a Feature Request that has some likelyhood of being added but at some later unknown time<br><br>Those are the different cases I can think of right now, feel free to add others.<br><br>FYI Mantis also allows customization of status values: <br><a href="https://www.mantisbt.org/manual/admin.customize.status.html">https://www.mantisbt.org/manual/admin.customize.status.html</a><br><br>Other relevant topics are discussed in:<br>* "What is the "Feedback" status in Mantis?" (<a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12931">http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12931</a>)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">* "[MANTIS] adding a status to mantis for request with a patch attached" (<a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9646">http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9646</a>)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">* "in mantis create a new "status" called "patch"" (<a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10822">http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10822</a>)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>* "Augmentations to Mantis" (<a href="http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12544">http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12544</a>)</div></div></div>