On Apr 26, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: > 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.
+1 from me ... I find it quite confusing when fixe bugs get re-opened for backports J
