Launchpad bug statuses

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:33:36AM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:40:50PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I wonder if the right workflow isn't setting the bug to Fix Released
> > > only when the first binary is uploaded (though that would be more
> > > complex to implement).
> > 
> > The problem with that is that it doesn't take the bug off the
> > developer's list when the developer is done, but at some
> 
> Well, if the developer uploads the source and it fails to build (for
> argument's sake, on all archs) then should the bug be off the
> developer's list or not?

The original bug should be off their list. As others have said, it's a
new problem, possibly caused by the developer in question, possibly not.
Soyuz will already mail the developer about the build failure, and for
important milestones we will inspect the list of out-of-date builds
separately, and ensure that none of them cause the omission of important
bug fixes.

(Yes, this is a certain amount of manual work, but I think no worse than
the confusion that would be caused by bugs flittering on and off
people's to-do lists due to difficult-to-observe external factors. If
and when Launchpad gets full-scale version tracking for bugs then we can
revisit this.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]