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"Wishlist" should be Status, not Importance

Asked by Novak Tamas

Now bug reports with Importance=Wishlist have irrelevant Confirmed or Triaged status (sometimes even left in "New" status)
If "wishlist" was an item of "Status", "Importance" should be set to different severity. Sometimes "wishes" can be more important than very-seldom-happening bugs. It would be fine the set importance for Wishlist items.

Existing reports may be automatically "upgraded" into new sysem: all records with Importance==Wishlist && Status==any set to new Status=Wishlist; Importance=Undecided

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#1

Perhaps it could have been organised better from the beginning; but over ten years on people have got pretty used to the current status, and I'm afraid it's very unlikely that we will spend any time on reorganising this. I'm also quite sure that some people would *not* consider the status field to be irrelevant for wishlist bugs: there's a clear difference between a wish that a user has filed but that hasn't been looked at by anyone, and a wish that a developer has confirmed to be a reasonable thing to try to implement in the software in question.

Projects are free to decide to simply not use the wishlist status by way of their own bug triaging processes, as indeed Launchpad itself does for its own bugs.

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Novak Tamas (novak-7) said : 		#2

I presumed this answer:(
I missed that ordinary users can file their wish directly as "Wishlist" instead of Undecided. I've thought all reports start with New/Undecided, and bugreport team members have the right to switch Undecided->Wishlist.
At our bugs.launchpad.net/kicad's wishlist items there is no any meaning of Status being New/Triaged/Confirmed. Even the "this bug affects n persons" counter should be a valuable severity measure..if it was used thoroughly.