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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 10:51:34
Message-Id: 1336819838.2928.2.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs by "Paweł Hajdan
1 El sáb, 12-05-2012 a las 12:34 +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." escribió:
2 > I noticed a general tendency to close bugs affecting stable before
3 > pushing the fix to stable.
4 >
5 > One recent example is <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399291>,
6 > but there are more.
7 >
8 > The idea is that if you only fix in ~arch, you risk a serious and
9 > _known_ regression in stable, which could be easily avoided.
10 >
11 > Do you have any ideas how do we:
12 >
13 > 1. Make as many developers (everyone?) as possible aware of this.
14 >
15 > 2. Handle already closed bugs with no fix in stable? I've seen people
16 > closing the bugs again.
17 >
18 > Paweł
19 >
20
21 I guess it depends in how major is the fixed bug, if it's not too major,
22 I think we can wait for next stabilization round (we tend to do it in
23 gnome team)

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