How I Patch Piloted lately and some tricks about merge proposals

[Martin Pool]

On 12 February 2010 14:35, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

>  > After some experimentation with xfail I actually don't think having
>  > the test in the tree is much better than just having the bug in the
>  > database, unless you're actively working on fixing it.
>
> OK, as long as it *is* in the database.  I'm just suggesting
> converting it from "patch" to "bug" (although maybe I lost context and
> these are the "bug-with-patch" issues you mentioned earlier? if so, my
> apologies).

Yes, we (or at least I :-) am talking about clearing out bugs-with-patches.

If there is a merge proposal with no bug attached and we decide we
can't proceed with it but there is still an underlying issue then we
do file a bug.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>