Hi all,
James suggested a while ago that we change how we deal with backported bugs.
I agree with him that our system of closing, reopening, reassigning etc. is
not only complicated, but difficult to follow.
His suggestion was simply to clone a bug that has been approved for
backport, and mark that for the backport version. Jira supports this I'm
fairly certain. This would make the original bug kept closed after
committed to trunk, and the cloned bug is used exclusive for the backport(s).
The one objection I've heard is that this could duplicate the number of bugs
that we have, but the per release statistics would not change in any way.
What do you guys think? I'm personally +1 on this idea.
-- Leif
