[RFC] Bugtracker workflow

[John Arbash Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> [cc'd the lp list] 
> 
> On  5 Aug 2006, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> This is just something I've been thinking about. It may not be something
>> that we can get Launchpad to support (easily).
>>
>> But it seems to me, that bugs should be marked as existing in certain
>> releases, and then fixed/closed in others.
>> Right now we use the bug tracker as pretty much just a 'the current
>> state of bugs'. We have no real way to say, 'This was a known issue in
>> bzr-0.8.2, but we fixed it in 0.9'.
> 
> This isn't something Launchpad can do at the moment, for just this
> reason:  
> 
>> It could just be that this is the standard way bug trackers work. They
>> only keep track of the *current* bug state, not really the state over time.
> 
> You can say "we intend to fix this in a new 0.8.x release", by making a
> new series and saying that it should be fixed there.  Or you can even
> explicitly say "we've decided this won't be fixed in the next 0.8.x
> release."  But you can't say "this bug is in 0.8.1".  
> 
> Personally I think that would be useful, to avoid confusion about when a
> user/tester should expect to see a bug fixed or not fixed.
> 
> The current suggestion is to just add freeform text about when it's
> fixed, which does the job but is not totally satisfying.
> 


On IRC, sabdfl said that this was called 'infestations'. And was
semi-planned, but nobody had written a spec yet.

Having thought about it some more, I think creating a release series
before each release, so we can earmark what bugs we want to fix before
it is released would be a good way to work. sabdfl also said that he
expects something like:
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/<series/+bugs

To be a way to just see the bugs for a particular series (this does not
work yet).

So it may be premature, but it would probably be a good way to work with
 future releases. Though it depends on how well lp ends up working when
you have 10 release series. Does each series get a box to fill out?
Which means as the series pile up, the pages get more cluttered?

John
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