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On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:58:52 -0400 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:14:44 +0200 |
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> > Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote: |
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> > |
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> >> On 06/16/2016 03:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> > Hello, everyone. |
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> >> > |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> > |
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> >> > What I'd like to introduce instead is a new STABILIZED state. It would |
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> >> > -- like VERIFIED now -- be only available for bugs already RESOLVED, |
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> >> > and it could be used to signify that the fix has made it into stable. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > While this wouldn't be really obligatory, it would be meaningful for |
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> >> > trackers that need to ensure that fixes in packages have made it to |
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> >> > stable -- like the functions.sh use tracker. |
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> >> > |
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> >> |
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> >> The description of InVCS keyword in bugzilla is: |
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> >> InVCS Fix has been added to a VCS(either CVS, SVN, Git, ...) |
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> >> repository. Will be closed when fixes are applied to a stable level package. |
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> >> |
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> >> A bug isn't resolved until it is fixed in a stable package (for packages |
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> >> ever in stable to begin with), but InVCS keyword can be used by |
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> >> developers to filter out the bugs for issues to work with. I oppose a |
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> >> change to that behavior, although I would like to see it being used more |
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> >> consistently as it seems quite a few developers are neglecting the |
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> >> stable tree. |
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> > |
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> > How would that work for Portage? There 'InVCS' indicates that the fix |
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> > has landed in git (i.e. in -9999, not yet released). |
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> > |
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> That could actually be generalized. I could see many types of bugs |
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> where the issue is with upstream, and we might want to track the |
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> progress as upstream implements a fix, releases it, and then it is |
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> stabilized on Gentoo. So, maybe we need another state to track in |
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> upstream's VCS vs the Gentoo repo. |
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> |
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> Another approach would be to distinguish between portage as a |
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> Gentoo-hosted upstream, and portage as a package in the Gentoo repo. |
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> The same could apply to any Gentoo-hosted project. |
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We also have the 'STABLE' keyword. However, we're getting to the point |
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where bug lists are already twice as wide as my monitor (since I had to |
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include keywords...). |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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