-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:24:07PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:50, Neil Williams wrote: > > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? > > For me "pending" is a signal to users saying "issue has been confirmed, > solution is available and will be included with the next upload". > > It would IMO not be correct to mark a bug pending if it is fixed but not > yet been released upstream (unless you plan to upload a fixed version > based on current upstream). > > A relevant question is: how long can you reasonably delay uploading a > package that has bugs that are marked pending. That IMO depends on the > severity and type of the BR. The general Free Software rule is probably > relevant here: release early, release often.
would it be useful for some process to periodically poll the bts for 'pending' tags that are unusually old [ say 1 or 2 months ] and ping the maintainer to remind them if they forget to 'release often'? - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSvyCv8UcC1qRZVMRAnm5AJ4uqxeK0cpJF52fAon1YLJ2WLfEogCgnMAp Zy6+a3WlOY2dxtS79bi1nHk= =p6Nd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
