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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@l.g.o>
Cc: bugzilla@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] The meaning of RESOLVED/UPSTREAM on bugzie
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:56:55
Message-Id: 1490774199.1744.1.camel@gentoo.org
1 Hi, everyone.
2
3 I'd like to bring the problem of ambiguity of 'UPSTREAM' resolution on
4 our Bugzilla to the discussion.
5
6 While the resolution generically indicates an issue upstream, it is used
7 differently by different developers, and sometimes even in a few
8 meanings by a single developer. What's even worse, it is both used
9 as a positive, neutral and negative resolution which renders it kinda
10 meaningless as a classification criteria.
11
12
13 If you grep the Bugzilla for bugs RESO/UPSTREAM, you'd notice it is used
14 to indicate:
15
16 a. that the bug has been reported upstream (but not fixed) [1],
17
18 b. that the bug has been fixed upstream (but did the fix find its way
19 into ::gentoo?) [2],
20
21 c. that the bug *should* be reported upstream by the user [3],
22
23 d. that the user should seek help upstream [kinda not-a-bug] [4],
24
25 e. that the bug has been reported upstream and worked around in ::gentoo
26 [5],
27
28 f. that the answer 'is always the same' (whatever that might mean) [6],
29
30 g. that the behavior is defined upstream and the user should discuss
31 changing it there [7],
32
33 h. that the issue has been fixed upstream and made its way to ::gentoo
34 via version bump [8].
35
36
37 As indicated above, this is meaningless most of them. It indicates both
38 bugs that are fixed, bugs that need to be fixed and reports that have
39 been rejected. It indicates both bugs needing user action, and those
40 expecting developer action.
41
42 I should point out that we also have an 'UPSTREAM' keyword which some
43 developers are combining with regular statuses.
44
45 How would you feel about removing/disabling the UPSTREAM resolution,
46 and expecting developers to use UPSTREAM keyword + regular resolution?
47 Any other ideas?
48
49
50 [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612868#c4
51 [2]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612006#c4
52 [3]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611930#c2
53 [4]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611654#c8
54 [5]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610628#c8
55 [6]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610058#c4
56 [7]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608080#c1
57 [8]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603480#c1
58
59 --
60 Best regards,
61 Michał Górny

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