On 16/06/16 14:19, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:14:44 +0200
> Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>>> What I'd like to introduce instead is a new STABILIZED state. It
>>> would -- like VERIFIED now -- be only available for bugs already
>>> RESOLVED, and it could be used to signify that the fix has made it
>>> into stable.
>>>
>>> While this wouldn't be really obligatory, it would be meaningful for
>>> trackers that need to ensure that fixes in packages have made it to
>>> stable -- like the functions.sh use tracker.
>> The description of InVCS keyword in bugzilla is:
>> InVCS        Fix has been added to a VCS(either CVS, SVN, Git, ...)
>> repository. Will be closed when fixes are applied to a stable level
>> package.
>>
>> A bug isn't resolved until it is fixed in a stable package (for
>> packages ever in stable to begin with), but InVCS keyword can be used
>> by developers to filter out the bugs for issues to work with. I
>> oppose a change to that behavior, although I would like to see it
>> being used more consistently as it seems quite a few developers are
>> neglecting the stable tree.
> I currently set InVCS for pending-stable fixes in conjunction with the
> IN_PROGRESS state. I would like to keep InVCS at least.
>
Possibly a 'COMMITTED' tag would fit this slightly better? There is room
for some QA 'VERIFIED' tag too, but don't know whether this is
absolutely necessary for Gentoo .. thoughts welcomed, though.

I prefer this Lifecycle diagram to that published in the latest docs:
https://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.6/en/html/lifecycle.html .

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