[off/2] some questions about Malone

[Martin Pool]

On 20 Dec 2006, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> > Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> >> I try to understand best way to work with our bugtracker on Launchpad.
> >> I have some questions:
> > 
> >> 1) I'm not completely understand statuses of bug. What difference
> >> between: `Fix Commited' and `Fix Released'? *When* I need to change
> >> status to `Commited', and *when* to `Released'?
> > 
> > For 'bzr' we follow the rule that:
> >   In Progress => Someone has started working on a fix
> >   Fix Committed => Someone has implemented a fix and has committed it to
> >                    a public branch.
> > 
> >   Fix Released => This has been merged into bzr.dev
> > 
> > I'm not 100% happy with that.

By the way these are documented in http://bazaar-vcs.org/BugGuidelines

> 
> I'm second here.
> 
> > As it feels like there should be 4 levels:
> > 
> >   1) Someone started on it
> >   2) Someone has submitted a patch
> >   3) That patch was merged into mainline
> >   4) That patch is in an official release.
> 
> I was thinking that step 3 is `Fix Commited' and step 4 is `Fix Released'.
> But I'll teach first scheme (above). May be it's more easily to manage.

I agree that would be better, but the problem is that there is no way
yet afaik to make a batch change of all Committed bugs to Released.
Changing them all by hand would be too much work.  (Though I heard
something about an xmlrpc tool that might be a way to do it...)
Actually it would be even better to automatically link to the revision
which marks the bug closed, and I think someone is working on that.

-- 
Martin