Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 27, 1999

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 12:09:30PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote:
> 
> > I was under the impression we weren't allowed to close a Bug until its
> > fixed in a stable release (which could take a year or more, it seems).
> > 
> > Has this changed?
> 
> I'm in favour of that practice (if it's not closed in a stable release, it's
> not closed at all, just fixed), but other people disagree.  Try to find some
> docs that state it's one way or the other.  There were none last time I
> looked.

If you want to do that, we'll need to be able to tag bugs as:

  fixed in 1.2.3-4

in the BTS, so that once that (or a later) version makes it into the
stable release, the BTS can close the bugs for you.  This would
probably be a good idea anyway, and might mesh nicely with keeping
closed bugs around somewhere (which is another thing we should do).

We could then allow people to look up all the bugs that were reported
in a particular version of a package, and put notes against all the
fixed ones, showing the version in which it was fixed, which would be
rather nice.

Cheers, Phil.