On 31 October 2013 13:26, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > Hello. > > Are there criteria about filling the "due-to" attribute of an issue > record in the "changes.xml" file? > > Current practice seems that reporting an issue does not by itself > warrants such an attribution. > Indeed, as I understand it, the attribute is a place-holder for when > an issue is fixed by a contributor who hasn't commit access. IMHO, > this implies that the reporter (or another contributor) provided a > patch or non-trivial insights that led to the fix. > > IOW, when a developer with commit access fixes a bug or implements a > feature request mostly by himself, the name of the original reporter > should not appear in the release notes, as if he were the contributor.
The person who raised the bug still took the trouble to do so. Without the report, would the bug have been noticed and fixed as quickly? IOW, the bug fix is still due-to the reporter, even if the contribution is just the bug report. > > Regards, > Gilles > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
