Accept Bug

[Christian Reis]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 10:38:29AM -0400, Casey Gregoire wrote:
> I was looking at a peculiar thing on the bug database. When you look at a
> bug that is marked NEW but assigned to someone else and you select the radio
> button for accept bug, (Change status to assigned) it does not change the
> owner to the person who selected accept. Does this sound right? if you open

This is by design, though you could argue it (or at least the labelling)
is broken. IIRC the reason is that certain organizations have these
things called "managers" that assign bugs to engineers, and not the
other way around. In that case, the engineers receive a notification
through email that bug X was assigned to them, and then they proceed to
spend the weekend coding a fix.

> some else's bug and click the link that says accept the bug, should it not
> assign to the user who made the selection?

I thought so too, but once someone on IRC pointed out this fact to me. I
think at least the label is wrong, and a bug to change it might even
exist.

Take care,
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Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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