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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] process for getting bugfixes and security updates into stable grimoire
  • Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 19:10:29 +0200

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:10:23AM -0500, Matthew Clark wrote:
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Replying to list, you should do the same Matthew, so other's can see
what you're writing ;)

> Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:28:56AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> >> Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
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> >>> I'm not sure. Overall I don't think that the whole FIXED -> VERIFIED ->
> >>> CLOSED process is working too well for us, and I don't really see a need
> >>> to.
> >>> Why not just resolve stuff as FIXED and have it reopened if it's not
> >>> fixed for the reporter? That's imho much easier. It drops the explicit
> >>> verification step, but do we need that one?
> >> While not everyone uses VERIFIED and CLOSED, they are handy for a proper
> >> bug tracking system as it is good to know that what was done to mark it
> >> as FIXED actually worked for the reporter. Otherwise, when someone comes
> >> along later and does a REOPEN we don't know if that's because the fix
> >> didn't really work or what.
> >>
> >> I'd rather we tried to have people use the methods we have than change
> >> the methods to make it 'easier'.
> >
> > Yeah, I realized that after writing.
> > In general VERIFIED + CLOSED is a good idea. The problem is that not
> > everyone verifies fixed bugs, so how about we define a time period after
> > which a bug is assumed verified and can be closed? Say a month after it
> > got FIXED?
> >
>
> Does that mean a maintainer (or whoever fixed the bug) would have to
> remember to come back and mark the bug as VERIFIED in a month?

It should be easy enough to create a bugzilla query listing all bugs
assigned to you that are marked FIXED and haven't changed in a month so
they can be VERIFIED/CLOSED.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org




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