On Apr 27, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Igor Galić wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> 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. > > Which bug number goes into CHANGES then?
I suggest that CHANGES in the backport should have the bug number of the clone (ie. the bug that was used to do that backporting). > >> >> -- Leif > > i > > > -- > Igor Galić > > Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 > Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org > URL: http://brainsware.org/ > GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE >
