[Python-Dev] Remove "unit test needed"

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
..
>> I would like to see “unit test needed” removed from the workflow menu in
>> the bug tracker.
..
> Is that stage supposed to (at least partly) capture the idea
> 'reproducible test-case needed', or 'verification needed'?  That would
> seem like a more useful notion.
>
+1

I have two problems with  “unit test needed”:

1.  Similar to Antoine, I find it ambiguous whether a bug without a
patch is in “unit test needed” or "patch needed" stage.

2.  I much prefer a small script reproducing the bug to a regression
suite patch.  In most cases unit tests require too much irrelevant
scaffolding to be useful in understanding or debugging the issue.

I remember there was an idea somewhere to replace "patch" tag with a
check-list with boxes for code, tests, and docs.  I think that would
be better than "unit test needed" stage.