+1 from me. This will be useful to give back to upstream.

- Tim Joseph Dumol <tim (at) timdumol (dot) com>


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net>wrote:

>
> Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > On 2009-Nov-02 13:35:05 +0000, "Dr. David Kirkby" <
> david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> >> I would suggest a pull-down on the track where one could select from
> >>
> >> 1) N/A - Not an upstream bug.
> >> 2) Not yet reported upstream, but should be.
> >> 3) Reported upstream.
> >> 4) Fixed upstream
> >
> > Sounds good to me.
>
> Great, that is two people that think it is useful.
>
> >> In the case of #3, the trac ticket should give further details of how
> the bug
> >> was reported. Such as
> > ...
> >> In case #4, the trac ticket should state if the fix is in
> >> * A stable upstream release
> >> * CVS
> >> * Alpha/beta release
> > [and presumably the version with the fix in it]
>
> Yes, whatever information is needed to get the fix.
>
> > Do you see these as being special fields or just the general trac body?
>
> I think whether a fix is in a stable upstream release, CVS, a particular
> alpha
> release or similar should just be described in the trac ticket. There are
> just
> too many combinations otherwise. If someone knows of an upstream bug fix,
> they
> should just put the information as text.
>
> > The only downside I can see is that tickets won't be updated from case
> > 3 to case 4 - but that's still going to be a vast improvement over what
> > we have now.
>
> There is no reason a trac ticket could not be updated from case 3 to case
> 4, but
> clearly that is not going to happen automatically.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> >
>

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