On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:31 -0500, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
On 3/31/2010 14:18, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> I'm asking for a sketch of a policy that would do better at accurately
>> portraying what deficiencies are alive while still allowing
>> maintainers to efficiently track which issues they've resolved to
>> their satisfaction.
>
> I've thought about this quite a lot, at both MDV and Fedora, and come to
> the conclusion that it's simply not possible to do this with the current
> implementation of Bugzilla. There is no really satisfactory way to use
> Bugzilla to track issues across multiple distribution releases, that I
> can think of. It's not a question of a lack of a policy; we need
> improvements to Bugzilla, or a different tool. Launchpad provides a good
> model, in this regard (though it is not better than Bugzilla in all
> respects).
The nicest thing that something like Launchpad would provide is separate
status tracking for each component and release that is affected.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. That's what Bugzilla does not provide,
and Launchpad does. Sorry if this wasn't clear.
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