Request for comment on adding "Under Review" as a substate of bugs

[Kevin Rushforth]

The Skara bot does not have admin privilege, and I don't think we want 
to grant that. But it wouldn't help anyway, since even a JDK project 
admin can't "start progress" on a bug not assigned to them (at least not 
through the UI).

I think we should relax this particular limitation of the start progress 
transition as well as the ability to edit the "understanding" field 
before implementing this feature. The workaround of having Skara assign 
the bug to itself, start progress, and assign it back, seems inelegant, 
and a bit fragile. And for bugs already in the "In progress" state, the 
"understanding" needs to be updated.

-- Kevin


On 8/10/2022 11:31 AM, Guoxiong Li wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Thanks for the work. It is very convenient to edit the `understanding` 
> field directly.
>
> But I find it is unable to click the `Start Work` button if someone is 
> not the assignee of the issue.
> So when solving SKARA-803 [1], I find we need to assign the issue to 
> the bot, then "click"
> the `Start Work` button to transfer the status to `In Progress`,
> and at last assign the issue back to the actual developer.
> This situation is similar to the previous `understanding` field.
>
> The three steps (self-assign, Start work, assign back) solution is a 
> workaround
> but it seems to be not very elegant.
> So I want to ask: can this be improved?
> Or can the bot accounts or other administrators' accounts
> click the `Start Work` button directly without as an assignee?
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/SKARA-803
>
> Best Regards,
> -- Guoxiong
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