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From: Sebastian Luther <SebastianLuther@×××.de>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Document bugzilla workflow
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:29:24
Message-Id: 52D6C570.8060706@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Document bugzilla workflow by Tom Wijsman
1 Am 15.01.2014 17:20, schrieb Tom Wijsman:
2 > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:29:19 +0100
3 > Sebastian Luther <SebastianLuther@×××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Am 15.01.2014 04:11, schrieb Tom Wijsman:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >> I send the first mail with this wording 8 days ago. Enough time to
9 >> comment on it. I'd prefer to discuss it on the list.
10 >
11 > Yes, but not all comments were discussed yet, therefore (dis)agreement
12 > on them is missing; and this last thing rather became a topic of
13 > discussion due to the work clashes that we saw happen twice.
14 >
15 I'd say the clashes occurred because nobody mentioned at all what they
16 are working on. Since people started using IN_PROGRESS to mean "I'm
17 working on it", this shouldn't happen again.
18 >
19 > Yes, I see some commit messages not refer to bugs which is something we
20 > will want to avoid; think this might need to go into the commit policy.
21 >
22 There's nothing wrong with fixing/implementing something that nobody
23 filed a bug about.
24
25 >>
26 >> The "way it was" is to not care about them at all. There was no
27 >> agreement on the the other thread if these things should be used or
28 >> not. So I left it vague so everyone could use it, but they are not
29 >> forced to.
30 >
31 > Hmm, could this result in conflicting usage of these?
32
33 Maybe, but I'd first see if the usage patterns converge to something
34 that makes everyone happy.
35 >
36 >>>> +There are a number of bugs named "[TRACKER] *" that collect bugs
37 >>>> +for specific topics. Confirmed bugs should be marked as blocking
38 >>>> +these tracker bugs if appropriate.
39 >>>
40 >>> For clarity, it should be mentioned that this does not mean to block
41 >>> the tracker for the next version; this could be misinterpreted.
42 >>
43 >> Considering that the tracker gets renamed, I'm not sure what you mean
44 >> here.
45 >
46 > As you are confused yourself by misinterpreting what you have written,
47 > you demonstrate the case for the need of clarity here; this is not
48 > about the next version tracker or it being renamed at all, it's about
49 > all other trackers that are not version trackers. The part of the
50 > policy quoted here doesn't make that clear, it had me puzzling for a
51 > moment too when I first read that; I think you were puzzled too now...
52 >
53
54 Sorry, I failed to properly read what you quoted.
55
56 I think once you know that these other trackers exist, it's clear. If
57 you want something added there, that's fine with me too.
58
59
60 Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Document bugzilla workflow Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>