On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:58:52 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:14:44 +0200 > > Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> On 06/16/2016 03:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > Hello, everyone. > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > What I'd like to introduce instead is a new STABILIZED state. It would > >> > -- like VERIFIED now -- be only available for bugs already RESOLVED, > >> > and it could be used to signify that the fix has made it into stable. > >> > > >> > While this wouldn't be really obligatory, it would be meaningful for > >> > trackers that need to ensure that fixes in packages have made it to > >> > stable -- like the functions.sh use tracker. > >> > > >> > >> The description of InVCS keyword in bugzilla is: > >> InVCS Fix has been added to a VCS(either CVS, SVN, Git, ...) > >> repository. Will be closed when fixes are applied to a stable level > >> package. > >> > >> A bug isn't resolved until it is fixed in a stable package (for packages > >> ever in stable to begin with), but InVCS keyword can be used by > >> developers to filter out the bugs for issues to work with. I oppose a > >> change to that behavior, although I would like to see it being used more > >> consistently as it seems quite a few developers are neglecting the > >> stable tree. > > > > How would that work for Portage? There 'InVCS' indicates that the fix > > has landed in git (i.e. in -9999, not yet released). > > > > That could actually be generalized. I could see many types of bugs > where the issue is with upstream, and we might want to track the > progress as upstream implements a fix, releases it, and then it is > stabilized on Gentoo. So, maybe we need another state to track in > upstream's VCS vs the Gentoo repo. > > Another approach would be to distinguish between portage as a > Gentoo-hosted upstream, and portage as a package in the Gentoo repo. > The same could apply to any Gentoo-hosted project. We also have the 'STABLE' keyword. However, we're getting to the point where bug lists are already twice as wide as my monitor (since I had to include keywords...). -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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