[RFC] Bugtracker workflow

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:23:28AM -0400, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> On 17-Aug-06, at 2:37 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 17:45 -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> >>
> >> Note that the URL may not be +bugs to make it clear that this page
> >> doesn't list bugs that are /present/ in that series, but bugs that we
> >> /intend to fix/ in that series. That distinction is important --
> >> targeting a fix to a series is not the same as saying that  
> >> releases in
> >> that series are affected by that bug.
> >
> > I think it would be very nice for users to be able to look at 0.9, see
> > there is a bug present in it, and that its fixed in 0.10 and wont  
> > be in
> > 0.9. That would be lovely.
> 
> The release management UI can model this specific use case *if* 0.9  
> and 0.10 are different series.
> 
> You could explicitly reject the bug (Rejected is intended to split  
> off into something like Wontfix and Invalid) in the 0.9 series to say  
> you won't fix it there, and mark it fixed in the 0.10 series.
> 
> Will they be different series though?

Yes, but there might be point releases, like 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 currently.
How hard would it be to split up a series even further when the need
arises?

Wouter van Heyst