Dealing with bugs that are only in trunk.

Thu Dec 12 18:16:09 UTC 2013

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Curtis Hovey-Canonical
<curtis at canonical.com> wrote:
> We close bugs when we know we have delivered a fix to the affected
> users. Our practice of targeting to milestones/releases is a little
> misleading if we assume the bug was in the previous release. Some bugs
> only affect users of trunk, such as developers and testers.

Another facet of releases is that we do devel and stable releases. We
mark bugs as fix released, but we advise users to not use the fix in
production. Surely this is confusing. The fix is not really released
until 1.18.0.

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Curtis Hovey
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