[Bulk] Re: [rfc] Fix committed/released distinction

[Ben Finney]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> On 4/8/2011 2:16 PM, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> > On 4/8/2011 1:06 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> >> We could modify things to say that just being landed to trunk
> >> counts as fix released, whereas for a stable series it is only
> >> fixcommitted when it's on the branch, and then fixreleased when
> >> it's out. Is that what you mean?
> > 
> > The problem with that is that from a user's perspective, they can't
> > distinguish between a bug that's been "released" onto trunk or
> > actually available in a officially released version. "Fix Released"
> > should be treated as "a user can download the latest officially
> > released tarball/installer and get this fix".
>
> Except some people only get things via a ppa. And others can only get
> it via stable updates, and others can have no trouble downloading
> trunk and getting it from there.

But those users still know what the Bazaar project means by “release”:
it means what the announcements call a release. Bazaar 2.3.0 is
released; Bazaar 2.4.0 is, as I write, not released.

> So "users" have very different perspectives of "Released".

Just because a user tracks a PPA or a development trunk does not change
what “released” means, even for that user. Some users choose to bypass
the release schedule; that doesn't mean “released” has a different
meaning for them.


Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com> writes:

> Gah, come on, release means release, as in "bug is fixed in a release
> made by the project".
>
> In Bazaar's case, that would be tarball + (since you guys offer a PPA
> of your releases,) .deb in your PPA. When that happens, the fix is
> indeed released.

+1.

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Ben Finney
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