Comment 4 for bug 569298

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 569298] Re: Add a Responded state instead of "Incomplete with response"

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 03:13:43PM -0000, Deryck Hodge wrote:
> I really don't want to add yet another bug status. :-) "Incomplete with
> response" is just a search condition really. I believe it is the
> common case to use confirmed in this way, so could we not add some code
> that toggled the state to confirmed when the original reporter adds a
> comment to a bug in the incomplete state?
>
> This was make sure no bugs remain incomplete once someone replies.
>
> Would this fix the root problem without adding a new status? Are there
> problems with this approach?

Yep, that would be fine (it's pretty much what I do currently).

I was thinking 'Answered' might be a better name than 'Confirmed', but I
guess that's orthogonal to this.