On 06/17/2016 03:58 PM, Rich Freeman 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.
For a great deal of this we have UPSTREAM keyword, and also combination with PATCH keyword if we've submitted an own patch. > > 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. Makes sense -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP certificate reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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