...a note that a bug was fixed and why

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 20:35 -0700, Kristis Makris wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> About one of the tasks of the VCS being to describe what was fixed and
> why, I believe the "why" part is a big bigger picture that may not be
> adequately captured only by the VCS system. Comments, testcases,
> screenshots, etc. in a bug-tracker may do a better job at describing the
> "why" part. If the VCS tool is integrated with Bugtracking, this
> higher-level summary can be created as described in:

Right, the "what bug" is probably some kind of pointer into a
bugtracking system; the VCS is probably not enough by itself for all but
the simplest projects.

> http://www.public.asu.edu/~makrists/scmbug/latest_manual/html/x594.html

That looks good.  I hope someone can write the glue for bzr at some
point.

> By the way, John Oysterhout said some nice words about distcc in his
> recent USENIX 05 talk. "When it comes to best result on effort, distcc
> captures with a very simple and intuitive abstraction 90% of the
> problem. It's just amazing." .. or something to that effect. Thought you
> should know.

Nice.

-- 
Martin

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