Please fix your bugs in release instead of rawhide!

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Mar 10 18:12:29 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:30:08PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 13:06:32 Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:49:10PM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 03:18 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > > > A note to all Fedora maintainers and especially to the Red Hat people
> > > > who are involved in development every day:
> > > > 
> > > >            Please fix your bugs [1] in the release they were
> > > >          filed against instead of just closing them NEXTRELASE!
> > > > 
> > > > I know it sounds slinky to just close everything NEXTRELEASE and I know
> > > > I sucks to get reports of bugs you've already fixed. But in 99% of all
> > > > cases it shouldn't be to hard to get the fix also into the stable
> > > > release.
> > > > 
> > > Hm... I am getting confused here. I thought NEXTRELEASE relates to
> > > package release not distro release, whereas RAWHIDE is what is supposed
> > > to be used when fixed in rawhide... At least one of us definitely needs
> > > to be wrong...
> > 
> > If that were the case, then CURRENTRELEASE would make no sense.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html

How did you find that?  I was looking for it, but couldn't find it 
linked from anywhere.




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