Hello everyone, During the weekly IRC meeting yesterday we started a discussion on what meaning we should give to the Launchpad bug statuses for Openstack. It became quickly obvious that there were several worthy options and that the mailing-list was a better forum to discuss this.
The first question is what "Fix committed" and "Fix released" should mean. There are two possible directions: * The developer (or "trunk") view, where "Fix committed" means a branch has been proposed with the fix, and "Fix released" means the fix has landed in trunk. * The user (or "release") view, where "Fix committed" means the fix has been committed to trunk and "Fix released" means the fix has been released in a given "Openstack release". Given the way LP handles "Fix committed" bugs (keep them visible by default in bug lists), I tend to prefer the "developer/trunk" view, but maybe that is confusing for users (makes it a bit more difficult to find already-fixed-in-trunk duplicates when filing a bug against a released version ?). The second question revolves around the "Confirmed" and "Triaged" states. I would use "Confirmed" when the bug has been acknowledged as a real bug and had its "Importance" set. Or should we restrict it to bugs that have been strictly reproduced ? Then I would use "Triaged" when the bug is understood (we know how to fix it, it is ready to be fixed), but just missing an assignee with time to fix it. Would that be reasonable ? Would you prefer some other meaning ? The last question is about the "Opinion" and "Wont Fix" statuses, which sound redundant to me, unless someone can suggest a good distinction between them ? The remaining statuses are no-brainers, I think: "New" is the first state, "Incomplete" is when it's missing input from the OP, and "In progress" is when the assignee is working on it. Let me know what you think about that, -- Thierry Carrez Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
