[Bug 50815] Change UNCONFIRMED/NEW statuses to OPENED

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50815

--- Comment #6 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> ---
Hello Zeb,

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What point is there in distinguishing between unconfirmed and confirmed?
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'NEW' / 'CONFIRMED' = The bug was processed/reproduced by another person and/or
the information from OP is trustworthy enough to assume that the bug is most
likely valid. Not a hundred percent guarantee tho but still higher than
'UNCONFIRMED'.

Strictly speaking there is indeed no point because 'CONFIRMED' and
'UNCONFIRMED' statuses do not reflect whether a bug has been truly triaged
(root cause identified) or not. For me this kind of information would be worth
to capture in a publicly visible field (status, keyword).

For me bugs with status 'UNCONFIRMED' always had a higher priority for triaging
than ten year old untriaged bugs with status 'NEW' (unless it's the random pick
of the day). But that's a rather weak, subjective selection criteria.

Currently there are:

* 4178 bug reports with 'UNCONFIRMED' status
* 3112 bug reports with 'NEW' status

Albeit not really related but the one thing that is becoming apparent to me
with this discussion is the need to better mark/identify triaged bugs. Kind of
the equivalent to bugs marked as 'STAGED'. I have few advanced search filters
for that but those are not that accurate. Tags are one option but they are only
visible to the user (= for my own benefit only). But that's a different
discussion.

Coming back to the original topic: anything that avoids 'NEW' can be already
considered an improvement, regardless if it's a direct replacement with less
ambiguous name or a new simplified status.

Regards

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