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[Richard Bair]

>>> What experience do other people have with these statuses?
>> 
>> Looking over the 100+ open bugs where I'm the responsible engineer, I have
>> about 1/3 in accept state, 1/3 in cause known, and 1/3 in fix understood.
>> 
>> Should these three related conditions about an increasing understanding of the
>> bug be covered in one state with three substates?

Personally I've never had a use for those various substates. To me it is just a bother and, if the system had such states, I'd probably not use them. The bug would go from "accept" to "fixed" and skip the others.

Richard