Russ Allbery wrote: > The one thing that I really wanted to have happen and was surprised didn't > happen was that I wanted a blocking annotation be automatically removed > when the blocking bug was closed. (Or even better, made dormant so that > if the other bug would reopen, the annotation would reappear.) > > I thought I was going to be able to use blocks as a reminder to myself why > I couldn't work on a bug yet, so when scanning down the BTS report, I > would ignore bugs with still active blocks. But since the status of the > blocking bug doesn't propagate through and show up on the blocked bug, I > still have to recheck it each time and all blocks really does in practice > is add a link.
I agree, if I had some ability to work on blocking bugs again, removing them on close is probably the next thing I'd try to do. At the moment they're mostly useful as a reminder to someone else that they're blocking your work, and as a way to track certian classes of transitions. -- see shy jo
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