On Oct 1, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >> I think process rather than ownership centric is a good move. >> Certainly better than what we have. Is there a "merged" transition >> from positive review to closed? > > I was imagining that the release maintainer would close the ticket > when > it was merged, like what is done now. Why should we have a separate > merged stage?
Ignore the noise--I forgot it was the special * state to closed. >> How about "incomplete" or "undecided" for needs_info? (Maybe >> needs_info is the best name, just throwing ideas out there.) > > I was trying to go for names that indicated what needed to be done to > move the ticket forward; for that reason, I like "needs info" better. > > I imagine a ticket will go into that state if the work has stalled > because, for example: > > * an issue needs to be raised and decided on sage-devel > * a licensing issue needs to be worked out to okay the inclusion > into Sage > * a bug in an outside package needs to be confirmed > > Basically, if I'm working on a ticket, but then realize that to > make any > progress, I need to ask around about something, the ticket goes into > "needs info". To me, that state means that work on the ticket has > been > postponed. Thanks for clarifying. Yes, I think that makes sense. >> I think rather than having several kinds of needs_work states, we >> should have a new field. Thus we could have "needs_work" with the >> "issues" field being documentation, doctests, rebasing, ... > > That makes sense. However, then I think we're back to the problem of > having to type in things and have no spelling errors in order to > pull up > a list in a report. Do you think it's worth the tradeoff? We make it a menu rather than an open field which would completely resolve this issue. > With different states, a report can just include all "needs_work" > state, > but easily separate them as well. I'm thinking the different kinds of "needs work" states may change, especially as we start using it. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
